Living in Your World and Listening to Theirs

re: Living in Your World and Listening to Theirs

senkwe — Thu, 13 May 2004 19:26:00 GMT

I thought Dare was on the XML team not SQL.

re: Living in Your World and Listening to Theirs

jledgard — Thu, 13 May 2004 20:02:00 GMT

He does work on XML, but he is technically on a SQL pragmatically.

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Garrett Fitzgerald — Thu, 13 May 2004 21:01:00 GMT

Another reason to use bloglines - you might want to read from multiple locations. It's not just a question of being comfortable installing software...

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josh ledgard — Thu, 13 May 2004 21:03:00 GMT

I think newsgator has some synching as well, but RSSBandit lets me sync to an FTP server between clients. Otherwise... I do agree.

re: Living in Your World and Listening to Theirs

John Dowdell — Thu, 13 May 2004 22:23:00 GMT

"I think the practices below apply to anyone blogging for or on behalf of a company. Let me know if I missed anything. I also distributed it with an OPML of all the “customer blogs” that I read on a daily basis."

One thing staffers at Macromedia use is a shared serverside aggregator of *customer* blogs:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs

It displays abstracts so people can quickly scan and pull deeper info on demand. The default page is for staff, but the topic sections are mostly what customers say they find important. The buy-in costs for staffers are very, very low to efficiently read customer comments... just click a link.

Regards,
John Dowdell
Macromedia Support

re: Living in Your World and Listening to Theirs

jledgard — Thu, 13 May 2004 22:31:00 GMT

That's pretty cool John. Since I sent the mail that's actaully one of the conversations I've started. You can imagine there may be

http://blogs.msdn.com/csharp/team

http://blogs.msdn.com/csharp/customers

right next to each other.

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Nathan — Thu, 13 May 2004 23:48:00 GMT

You might like to try Sauce Reader. It is built on .NET, has an Outlook 2003 style UI and includes integrated weblog posting support.

http://www.synop.com/Products/SauceReader/

cheers, Nathan

In Search of the Perfect RSS Reader

{ public virtual blog; } — Fri, 14 May 2004 22:11:00 GMT

For the last year or two, I've been switching from reader to reader. While each one had features that I loved, they all seemed to fall short on one thing or another and I was never really 100% pleased with any of them. I went from SharpReader, to RSSBandit, to NewsGator, to SharpReader again, to FeedDemon, back to SharpReader, back again to NewsGator, and then Sauce Reader. Just as I was about to start building my own aggregator, I decided to give RSSBandit another try (after reading how Josh Le

re: Living in Your World and Listening to Theirs

Mark Levison — Tue, 18 May 2004 19:08:00 GMT

Great idea - I add only that some of your customers blog at http://dotnetjunkies.com and http://sqljunkies.com. I'm sure there a host of other blogging sites.

re: Living in Your World and Listening to Theirs

jledgard — Tue, 18 May 2004 19:27:00 GMT

That's a good point. I could have created a much larger list in the mail. In the OPML I sent out though a lot of those where included.

After johns comments there has been some discussion over having one aggregation service for .net blogs that mixes our teams/customers next to each other to make this even easier.