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! [↩]