I haven’t turned to the LazyWeb often because I don’t have many readers, but maybe there’s just enough with the right bent.
The question:
What’s the best example on the web today of listing several hundred (or thousand) RSS feeds in a useful way, so readers can find the feed(s) they might be interested in without having a needle-in-haystack feeling?
Send suggestions, preferably with example URLs, to my work email address: john.roberts AT cnetDOTcom.
Why? The current News.com RSS listing page isn’t complete any more, and the current design hardly scales to even the few dozen feeds listed. I think it deserves a fresh start.
One answer to the question is “don’t try; use auto-discovery contextually everywhere,” and that’s not a terrible answer. I’ll aim to do that, too, as more feeds become public material. But I believe a single page (or group of pages, perhaps) can be a meaningful, useful method all the same, and it would be a handy place for offering OPML file(s) of groups of feeds, if nothing else.
Thanks for the help, syndication mavens everywhere.
What does it mean that syndication stuff is what I turn to when I can’t sleep and I don’t want to do my more urgent (though not important) tasks?