kevin,
thanks for that, a huge improvement from no images in feeds,
is there any prospect of better and larger images in the near future?
when compared with yahoo, flickr, ebay etc these thumbnails are very
small and in the cases I reviewed close to meaningless...
what is this:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44872000/jpg/_44872330_ba66bbc.jpg
without a text description it would be hard rather than impossible to
guess.
the yahoo news images in their feed:
http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories
are around 130 x 100
about 4 times the quality, this is significant as for the user with
'average' sight this makes a considerable difference, for others....
It would be hard to justify a switch to bbc content on the basis of
the current thumbnails, as the quality is clearly deficient.
my rationale is that, in fact people are at least as able to select on
the basis of 'good' images, as text.
reviewing chairs at ebay this is apparent, for other topics it does
remain to be shown, but cbbc amongst others make very good cases.
furthermore for people with low literacy, or learning disabilities the
case is evident.
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
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On 7 Nov 2008, at 11:15, Kevin Hinde wrote:
The BBC News and Sport RSS feeds link to the 66x49 thumbnail for each
story.
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BBC or other picture feeds?
does the BBC provide any feeds with picture links?
how about other great feeds with pictures?
cheers
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I use a few non-bbc ones here:
http://www.openicon.org/feeds/zanadu.svg
which includes a horrible hack for the bbc weather icons,
chairs on sale at ebay, yahoo news, flickr pets, youtube films
and much more...
our man from Reuters was sure they had one, but confirmed that
they don't...
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