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May 3, 03:40 pm: It's got to be easier than this

Marhsall Kirckpatrick has a great detailed post on putting up an RSS-based microsite. Though this was done to support an event, it’s easy for nptech readers to translate to an issue-based site. Such a microsite could be great for managing information internally or externally.


But what he writes about is hard. Frankly, we need at tool, out-of-the-box, to do some of the basic things he’s suggesting:


  • figure out way to measure “popularity”

  • get rid of duplicate posts
  • measure the various links

Marshall does a fantastic job of cobbling together a variety of tools but should that be necessary?

[From Marshall Kirkpatrick » How to Build an RSS and Blog News Site for Your Project]
Marnie Webb  | 

Comments made

  1. Jon Stahl

    actually, I think Marshall’s story is a great example of what the future of web development will like — building out a thoughful custom project by weaving together a “pipeline” of commoditized services from the interweb, rather than relying on a monolithic “do-everyting” application.


    May 8, 02:06 am

  2. marnie webb

    @Jon: I agree that it’s a thoughtful weaving together. But I do think that this kind of issue based microsite is a niche that could be met — by pre-weaving some of the tools to make it easier to get at this kind of quick platform. People do it during a disaster, during a campaign or for an event. It seems like some of the common things could be worked out and then what th eowner has to do is tofigure out the sarches and the other hard human bits. A little less about how to weave together the tools.

    So, I guess, I saying “out-of-the-box” was wrong but in the same that it is easy to configure, say, widgets and plug-ins for Wordpress some of these things could be turned on and configured ready to weave in other tools and applicaitons.


    May 8, 03:42 am