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  Monday 4 March 2002
Category Titles: give more context

Jon Udell explains why titles matter. I'd like to add to that -- specifically, to Radio users whose weblogs have categories that show up in Weblogs.com. If your categories have simple, short names (like, um, mine), then they show up in weblogs.com with a lot less context than the visitor to Weblogs.com might wish for. I'll have to do a little digging to see whether I can keep the short names in my nav links and in the listing on the desktopWebsite, but still give more descriptive names for Weblogs.com purposes.
1:10:41 PM   comment/     

Metacomments

Rob McNair-Huff says, in MacNetJournal:

The "comment" feature [...] have so far failed to draw much response [...] I keep hoping that comments will catch on, because it offers a two-way street for communication.

I added a couple of comments there. Reproduced (slightly edited) here:

I think there are two problems with comments, as they currently work in Radio. One is that it's too hard for a weblog writer to see whether/where any comments have been added to a posting. I can't come up with a "Find" string in Netscape that would locate just the items that do have comments. (A regular expression search could do it, but I don't know how to tell Netscape to perform one of those.) The other problem is that they're so restricted in scope/audience. If I want to write my feedback about comments, wouldn't I just put it on my own weblog and/or the Radio discussion site?

Two other problems are that I can't edit my comment after submitting it, and I haven't found a way to remove comments after I posted a couple of test comments on my weblog.
10:46:31 AM   comment/     



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