RSS is OK for those that use RSS readers (or ATOM); Tweet as a posting mechanism has these (considerable) advantages IMO:
- Short messages (SMS length, historically); - Available for mobile delivery (therefore) - Many people from Python community (e.g. PyCon) follow things on Tweeter, so greater visibility - Because of short messages, more people likely to "check out" and follow web2py (on the other hand, RSS can show you new articles, etc.; tweets can provide link of "cool" articles) I don't think this needs to be an "either / or" --- I think the type of use is different. RSS - track changes to content; be notified of changes, new items (good for tracking a wiki, code checkins, etc.) TWEET - intentional announcements: "Hey! web2py adopted on whitehouse.gov! Check it out!" <--- this isn't RSS kind of thing (unless you have a "news" page where you post such short things; with tweets, you don't need this) Makes sense to me to use each for what they're best suited (I personally havn't followed an RSS reader in years; being increasingly mobile, e.g. smart phones, tweets are more appealing to me at this point, but I can see RSS, particularly for code checkins, wiki, etc.) - Yarko On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:29 PM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Other pros and cons? I think we need to settle this by majority. > > Massimo > > On May 7, 5:25 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Which service do you suggest? > > > > On May 7, 5:08 pm, Álvaro Justen [Turicas] <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Álvaro Justen [Turicas] > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:31 AM, mdipierro <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> 2) modify the admin/site page so that it shows a sidebar with all > > > >> recent tweets from web2py. This could be a quick mechanism to notify > > > >> users about changes. Or should we generate our own RSS feed? > > > > > > I prefer RSS. I think in a simple app 'news' that has a db table with > > > > title, datetime, description and a link. It can create RSS feed and > in > > > > future we can use it in admin too. It can be used to alert users to > > > > bugs, new releases and some stuff related to web2py (events, > > > > talkshows, ...). > > > > > I really don't like the idea that web2py is getting news from Twitter. > > > And more: "tweets" are not a standard, RSS is. > > > > > -- > > > Álvaro Justen > > > Peta5 - Telecomunicações e Software Livre > > > 21 3021-6001 / 9898-0141 > > > http://www.peta5.com.br/ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
