Can you provide an example of how you'd share the weekly news? On 8 April 2014 13:59, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Recently shared blog posts on G+ starts and ends with the next words: > >> New blog post! >> Roll up, roll up. Read all about it! >> Roll up, roll up. Read all about it. Get your copy of the CouchDB Weekly >> News, March 2 >> New post by +Andreas Wenk! >> Woo hoo! See you there! > > https://plus.google.com/u/0/109226482722655790973/posts > > These reminds me old good 90x with NEW! HOT! links, blinking colorful > texts, marquee magic and a lot of animation on the page. Suddenly, > these good old times had gone away, so could we please provide some > more information about shared items? Technically, this should be first > paragraph from shared post which included the main idea of all the > text, but there is a lot of space for improvisation to highlight the > idea. > > I understand reasons about having some short description there: it's > easy to copy-paste news between twitter / reddit / g+ and others > without care about text size limitation, but we should respect > community rules: what's good for twitter, may be not for g+ and fb and > if we have a chance to provide more text, the interesting intro to our > news that would be more attractive for newcomers and respectful for > the people who don't want waste their time on things in the web with > crying titles. > > In our information age it's very easy to produce and share > information. To manage this huge stream of information everyone sets > own inner filter to ignore all the trash and catch up only interesting > bits. Suddenly, our current news stream on g+ is a trash with no > useful bits. It could be better, it could be interesting. > > When you're walking at night and looking on the sky you see thousands > stars there. If the new one will raise there you would never notice > that. You'll probably wouldn't spend more than 5 minutes looking on > them. However, if only you had an Augment Reality device which would > show a short description for every star in the focus and highlight the > new ones, I bet sky-watching process would be more interesting for you > and will lasts not a single hour. > > Let's make our posts on communities better to attract [more] people > and raise the discussion around. Let's annotate our stars. > > Thanks. > > -- > ,,,^..^,,,
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