Some Radio Ideas on a Late Saturday Night
I'm really hooked on blogging. I've updated this blog multiple times a day for the past 11 days. I know, that's not as long as most bloggers have been blogging, and I'm not claiming any special insight here. Just enthusing.
In the process, I've come up with three ideas I'd like to see Dave and his excellent Radio team at UserLand consider adding or changing.
- Chronology Control. There are some kinds of materials (stories, real-time even blogs) that cry out for a chronology that goes start to finish instead of finish to start. It would be great if we who publish blogs could choose this alternative ordering as needed.
- Three-Part Posts. Right now we post everything in one chunk. If we want a headine, e.g., we have to code it deliberately into the post. And, as discussions I've had here with Robert Scoble indicate, post length can be deterrent to syndication. How about giving us three publishable fields instead of one: headline, intro/tease/summary, and body. Then RSS feeds could put out just the headline and the intro/tease/summary. This would encourage a tighter kind of writing, too, I think.
- Notification of Comment Posts. I like that we can provide an easy way for readers to dialog with us about our posts. Now if we could have email or on-site notification of new posts so we can stay current with them without having to scan all the contents of our sites, that would be great!
11:27:15 PM 
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