Something New, Something Cool: Feedster Images !
What do these people have in common:
Every one of them, when I showed them the latest Feedster feature, proclaimed it "Cool". Now I'm not a cool guy -- I work with computers professionally and let's just say that in high school if you needed audio/visual (AV) help* then I probably was your guy. So its just shocking to me that anyone ever thinks anything I do is cool. So here's the new feature:
==> Feedster Images <==
That's right -- its a visual summary of every picture that is a part of today's (or any day's) blogdom. Think of it as "today through the looking glass".
And, lest you even ask, it also supports these things:
- Navigation -- the traditional blog calendar is there for "visual time traveling"
- Permalinks -- want to email all of Monday's pictures to a friend? Just navigate to Monday and copy the link
- RSS -- want a feed of today's images? Here 'ya go! (NOTE: actually I had to pull the feed until Monday -- I need to do a better job testing it in different readers).
Hope you like it. Leave comments for changes you think are necessary. My thanks to the folks above who each gave me really good ideas. Not all of them are done yet but its getting there.
Notes:
- There is a known problem where occasionally pictures display broken. Sometimes this is the blog itself and sometimes its me. I'm looking into it but its relatively minimal.
- Emoticons and other teeny tiny images (the XML icon, permalink icons) are largely filtered out. Notice any ones that shouldn't be there and I'll get it taken care of.
- Don't always assume that I'm at fault here. There are lots and lots of interesting things in how people use images in blogs and I'm still sorting out the best way to display them. Like the rest of Feedster, I'll take the feedback I get and use it to tune everything.
- Don't always assume that the exact picture in Feedster is what's on the blog entry. At least one feed is very courteously serving up thumbnails but showing the real image on their site. (And try debugging that one past midnight).
* Its still continuing -- when Zak at phpcon had troubles with the LCD projector, I was called in to save the day.
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