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What Do You Want From Syndication?

First time trying out a pretty powerful syndication tool that results in the “What I’m Reading” widget in the bottom of the sidebar. Initial impressions are pretty positive, but one thing that I note is that Author and Blog title need to be present and smartly formatted. I’ll have to work on that. Currently, the algorithm is a bit silly- I’d like to maximize at 1 post per link rather than have 7 posts all by Cami Kaos.1

So, I wonder what other people would want in a blogroll syndication aggregator community linker tool thingy. Things I want are:

  1. Configurable number of posts shown
  2. Configurable limit of posts/author
  3. Configurable amount of text shown- some selections/combination from the following:
    1. Author
    2. Blog title
    3. Post title
    4. Post excerpt
    5. Post text
    6. Post comments
    7. Others? (like maybe one link from their blogroll?2
  4. Some kind of smart traceback system. It’d be nice to automagically re-syndicate as an option.

Can’t think of any more right now, but that’s a good bit to work on. What would you like if you were going to use such a tool for community connectivity? Leave a comment and let me know.


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  1. Actually, I’ll make that an option- there are probably lots of people who’d want the entire syndication to focus on one blog- especially one like Cami’s []
  2. Talk about feature creep! []
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