Hi,

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Shaver, Michael R
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The comment above does raise a number of concerns I've had with the social
> news site. These mainly center around the naming. Coming from outside the
> maemo.org project, the use of "planet", "news" and "blogs" to essentially
> describe the same thing is really confusing. Add to that the existing
> meego.com aggregation, blogs and mailing lists, and we have a real problem.

On maemo.org we call the "important" items News and the whole
aggregated list Planet, but obviously MeeGo doesn't need to follow
this guideline.

Probably something for the Community Office to decide. We can easily
configure the service to run under a different name :-)

(but of course now that it has been running a bit as "news", there
should be a redirect kept up for a while if the address changes)

> - keep top level page as is with the promoted items highlighted (don't call
> it news in any way though)

Yep, there was the request for "sticky" items.

> - keep blogs link with all blogs listed

http://news.meego.com/blogs/feeds/list/ (though needs a bit of styling
and linkage)

> - add twitter and events links

Yes. Midgard can import event feeds if any are available.

> - clean up display a bit to show shorter posts and indicate type of post
> (blog, twitter, event) I can mock up sample here.

Would be great!

Though I wouldn't mix these three content types together. You usually
want to show the next events, not the ones most recently published.
Mixing news and tweets might make sense, but I'm not so sure of that
either.

Another thing we may want to have is displaying comments with blog
posts that come from systems that support it (comments feed linked
from the primary feed).

> - do we keep the existing blog posts from meego.com also???

On Maemo we did that. But if we have sticky news items it might not be
necessary.

Oh, and another item. We need to associate the feeds with their
authors. In order to do this, the people who have their feeds
aggregated on news.meego.com should log in there at least once.

> Mike

/Henri

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