Comments on: 7 Quick Thoughts http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:00:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Disruptive Thoughts » Here’s to Kent Newsome http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-54740 Disruptive Thoughts » Here’s to Kent Newsome Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:21:57 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-54740 [...] the hardest working man in the blogosphere, is running an experiment to help rebuild his reading [...] […] the hardest working man in the blogosphere, is running an experiment to help rebuild his reading […]

]]> By: SHARKRIDE http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-2326 SHARKRIDE Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:01:03 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-2326 [...] Fraser of Disruptive Thoughts, Eric of Venture Week and of Feedburner and I discussed several months ago the potential of Feedburner to ID RSS subscribers (possibly by an offering where you can elect to give your name and/or email address at the point of subscription), an idea I fully endorse, so bloggers know who our readers are. In a conceptual extension of this, MyBlogLog has developed a service that essentially allows for more robust and dynamic communities to build around weblogs. The service just rolled out, and the functionality is very limited at this point, but the potential is huge: imagine sorting readers by profession, or imagine seeing a person’s picture beside comments, or having the functionality to sort comments by readers etc. To view the front page widget in action, and to see an example of a nascent community, visit Fred Wilson’s A VC and check out the widget box on the left side of the site. [...] […] Fraser of Disruptive Thoughts, Eric of Venture Week and of Feedburner and I discussed several months ago the potential of Feedburner to ID RSS subscribers (possibly by an offering where you can elect to give your name and/or email address at the point of subscription), an idea I fully endorse, so bloggers know who our readers are. In a conceptual extension of this, MyBlogLog has developed a service that essentially allows for more robust and dynamic communities to build around weblogs. The service just rolled out, and the functionality is very limited at this point, but the potential is huge: imagine sorting readers by profession, or imagine seeing a person’s picture beside comments, or having the functionality to sort comments by readers etc. To view the front page widget in action, and to see an example of a nascent community, visit Fred Wilson’s A VC and check out the widget box on the left side of the site. […]

]]> By: Half Arsed Ideas » Blog Archive » A not so half arsed idea #1 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-173 Half Arsed Ideas » Blog Archive » A not so half arsed idea #1 Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:49:51 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-173 [...] One of my fave new bloggers found via chartreuse (BETA) is a guy named Fraser at Disruptive Thoughts who has sweet idea burried in a post:  4) I wish there was an official (read: cool) way to notify someone that you’ve subscribed to their feed. I’ve had a few people send emails like “great posts. subscribed!” and it left a good taste in my mouth. I think some geek needs to develop a better way of informing the author, I’d embrace it. [...] […] One of my fave new bloggers found via chartreuse (BETA) is a guy named Fraser at Disruptive Thoughts who has sweet idea burried in a post:  4) I wish there was an official (read: cool) way to notify someone that you’ve subscribed to their feed. I’ve had a few people send emails like “great posts. subscribed!” and it left a good taste in my mouth. I think some geek needs to develop a better way of informing the author, I’d embrace it. […]

]]> By: Fraser http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-132 Fraser Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:19:26 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-132 I'm training for the Toronto marathon, I think it's in Oct... anything before that and I'd probably die on km 34. You'll live 'til 220 but of course the gene therapy will have some kinks and you'll come out looking a lot like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Joanriversjewelery.jpg" rel="nofollow">this</a>. I’m training for the Toronto marathon, I think it’s in Oct… anything before that and I’d probably die on km 34.

You’ll live ’til 220 but of course the gene therapy will have some kinks and you’ll come out looking a lot like this.

]]> By: Fraser http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-101271 Fraser Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:19:26 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-101271 I'm training for the Toronto marathon, I think it's in Oct... anything before that and I'd probably die on km 34. You'll live 'til 220 but of course the gene therapy will have some kinks and you'll come out looking a lot like <a href="<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Joanriversjewelery.jpg"" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Joanriversjewe...</a>rel="nofollow">this. I’m training for the Toronto marathon, I think it’s in Oct… anything before that and I’d probably die on km 34. You’ll live ’til 220 but of course the gene therapy will have some kinks and you’ll come out looking a lot like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Joanriversjewe…rel=”nofollow”>this.

]]> By: Chad Sakonchick http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-131 Chad Sakonchick Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:51:52 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-131 Of course I didn't die, I'm gonna live for at least another 220 years or so thanks to the advancements of gene therapy. By then I'll have run several marathons, possibly one or two on the moon. I ordered my pictures from the Marathon yesterday and will post them on my flickr account as soon as I get them. Until then you can see the pictures from my trip in the France set at http://www.flickr.com/photos/csakon/ Fraser, I'm expecting a marathon out of you quite soon. I've set the bar at 3 hours and 47 minutes. Of course I didn’t die, I’m gonna live for at least another 220 years or so thanks to the advancements of gene therapy. By then I’ll have run several marathons, possibly one or two on the moon.

I ordered my pictures from the Marathon yesterday and will post them on my flickr account as soon as I get them. Until then you can see the pictures from my trip in the France set at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/csakon/

Fraser, I’m expecting a marathon out of you quite soon. I’ve set the bar at 3 hours and 47 minutes.

]]> By: Chad Sakonchick http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-101270 Chad Sakonchick Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:51:52 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-101270 Of course I didn't die, I'm gonna live for at least another 220 years or so thanks to the advancements of gene therapy. By then I'll have run several marathons, possibly one or two on the moon. I ordered my pictures from the Marathon yesterday and will post them on my flickr account as soon as I get them. Until then you can see the pictures from my trip in the France set at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/csakon/ " rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/csakon/ </a> Fraser, I'm expecting a marathon out of you quite soon. I've set the bar at 3 hours and 47 minutes. Of course I didn’t die, I’m gonna live for at least another 220 years or so thanks to the advancements of gene therapy. By then I’ll have run several marathons, possibly one or two on the moon. I ordered my pictures from the Marathon yesterday and will post them on my flickr account as soon as I get them. Until then you can see the pictures from my trip in the France set at http://www.flickr.com/photos/csakon/ Fraser, I’m expecting a marathon out of you quite soon. I’ve set the bar at 3 hours and 47 minutes.

]]> By: Eric Olson http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-130 Eric Olson Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:26:19 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-130 I like the idea although I do think there would be a lot of publishers that wouldn't want it included as they would be inundated with e-mail. It definitely needs to be opt-in. Upon thinking about this further over the weekend and this morning I believe the idea could be easily accomplished/executed using FeedFlare. One could create a FeedFlare that would link to a feedback type of form (or even just a straight mailto link would work) on the site that would allow people to send notes once they subscribe. If anyone is interested I would be happy to whip up a Flare - I am no programmer but they are super easy to whip up. Just shoot me an e-mail (erico@feedburner.com). This is essentially why we developed Flare. It will allow publishers to do all kinds of great things within in their feeds and sites. Also, we now have a Flare catalogue which users can submit Flare to so that other users don't have to recreate the wheel. Great discussion guys! I never would've thought to use Flare for this purpose without it. I like the idea although I do think there would be a lot of publishers that wouldn’t want it included as they would be inundated with e-mail. It definitely needs to be opt-in. Upon thinking about this further over the weekend and this morning I believe the idea could be easily accomplished/executed using FeedFlare. One could create a FeedFlare that would link to a feedback type of form (or even just a straight mailto link would work) on the site that would allow people to send notes once they subscribe. If anyone is interested I would be happy to whip up a Flare - I am no programmer but they are super easy to whip up. Just shoot me an e-mail (erico@feedburner.com).

This is essentially why we developed Flare. It will allow publishers to do all kinds of great things within in their feeds and sites. Also, we now have a Flare catalogue which users can submit Flare to so that other users don’t have to recreate the wheel. Great discussion guys! I never would’ve thought to use Flare for this purpose without it.

]]> By: Eric Olson http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-101269 Eric Olson Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:26:19 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-101269 I like the idea although I do think there would be a lot of publishers that wouldn't want it included as they would be inundated with e-mail. It definitely needs to be opt-in. Upon thinking about this further over the weekend and this morning I believe the idea could be easily accomplished/executed using FeedFlare. One could create a FeedFlare that would link to a feedback type of form (or even just a straight mailto link would work) on the site that would allow people to send notes once they subscribe. If anyone is interested I would be happy to whip up a Flare - I am no programmer but they are super easy to whip up. Just shoot me an e-mail (erico@feedburner.com). This is essentially why we developed Flare. It will allow publishers to do all kinds of great things within in their feeds and sites. Also, we now have a Flare catalogue which users can submit Flare to so that other users don't have to recreate the wheel. Great discussion guys! I never would've thought to use Flare for this purpose without it. I like the idea although I do think there would be a lot of publishers that wouldn’t want it included as they would be inundated with e-mail. It definitely needs to be opt-in. Upon thinking about this further over the weekend and this morning I believe the idea could be easily accomplished/executed using FeedFlare. One could create a FeedFlare that would link to a feedback type of form (or even just a straight mailto link would work) on the site that would allow people to send notes once they subscribe. If anyone is interested I would be happy to whip up a Flare - I am no programmer but they are super easy to whip up. Just shoot me an e-mail (erico@feedburner.com). This is essentially why we developed Flare. It will allow publishers to do all kinds of great things within in their feeds and sites. Also, we now have a Flare catalogue which users can submit Flare to so that other users don’t have to recreate the wheel. Great discussion guys! I never would’ve thought to use Flare for this purpose without it.

]]> By: Fraser http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-129 Fraser Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:31:25 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-129 What about if there was a button that you could put beside/below the Feedburner "subscribe to this feed" button that said something like "Let me know you've subscribed". When you click on it it pops up a dialogue box where you can enter your name / blog addy / a comment / etc. and then it gets sent to the authors email. I just know that the few readers who've left me an email with "great post. subscribed!" have made my day. If feedburner was to make it easier for people to pass that message along (theoretically increasing the occurance) it would indirectly increase my love affair with feedburner. What about if there was a button that you could put beside/below the Feedburner “subscribe to this feed” button that said something like “Let me know you’ve subscribed”. When you click on it it pops up a dialogue box where you can enter your name / blog addy / a comment / etc. and then it gets sent to the authors email.

I just know that the few readers who’ve left me an email with “great post. subscribed!” have made my day.

If feedburner was to make it easier for people to pass that message along (theoretically increasing the occurance) it would indirectly increase my love affair with feedburner.

]]> By: Fraser http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-101268 Fraser Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:31:25 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-101268 What about if there was a button that you could put beside/below the Feedburner "subscribe to this feed" button that said something like "Let me know you've subscribed". When you click on it it pops up a dialogue box where you can enter your name / blog addy / a comment / etc. and then it gets sent to the authors email. I just know that the few readers who've left me an email with "great post. subscribed!" have made my day. If feedburner was to make it easier for people to pass that message along (theoretically increasing the occurance) it would indirectly increase my love affair with feedburner. What about if there was a button that you could put beside/below the Feedburner “subscribe to this feed” button that said something like “Let me know you’ve subscribed”. When you click on it it pops up a dialogue box where you can enter your name / blog addy / a comment / etc. and then it gets sent to the authors email. I just know that the few readers who’ve left me an email with “great post. subscribed!” have made my day. If feedburner was to make it easier for people to pass that message along (theoretically increasing the occurance) it would indirectly increase my love affair with feedburner.

]]> By: Eric Olson http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-128 Eric Olson Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:34:00 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-128 That's my cue! Hi Matt, I am both the Eric of VentureWeek (yup, small world! - thank you again for your generous support) and the regular reader of Disruptive Thoughts Fraser is talking about. I too like the idea of some sort of automatic notification of subscription. It would create a bit more community around the feed. Right now we can't tell which of your subscriber base is new, which is the same and who left. This has to do with the way feeds work. There is no way cookie users within a feed and using IP addresses for identification is not accurate (since all of us are on a work IP and home IP during the day and the occasional s'bucks, etc.). I wonder how many publishers out there would like this service. This is something we should figure out. My only concern would be the subscribers privacy. I think a lot of people enjoy feeds since they are anonymous (not mention they a better way to consume content). You don't need to give up your e-mail address or anything personal making the feed completely spam free. However, this could be remedied by someone like us creating an e-mail address that the notification would come from and allowing users the ability to opt-in to the notification. Anyhow, very interesting idea. It is one we have been thinking about internally a lot. Please keep the ideas coming. We love hearing from our publisher base since we really want to provide what you guys need and want. Now that I have taken about half a page I think it is time to stop. :-) Take care! That’s my cue! Hi Matt, I am both the Eric of VentureWeek (yup, small world! - thank you again for your generous support) and the regular reader of Disruptive Thoughts Fraser is talking about. I too like the idea of some sort of automatic notification of subscription. It would create a bit more community around the feed.

Right now we can’t tell which of your subscriber base is new, which is the same and who left. This has to do with the way feeds work. There is no way cookie users within a feed and using IP addresses for identification is not accurate (since all of us are on a work IP and home IP during the day and the occasional s’bucks, etc.).

I wonder how many publishers out there would like this service. This is something we should figure out. My only concern would be the subscribers privacy. I think a lot of people enjoy feeds since they are anonymous (not mention they a better way to consume content). You don’t need to give up your e-mail address or anything personal making the feed completely spam free. However, this could be remedied by someone like us creating an e-mail address that the notification would come from and allowing users the ability to opt-in to the notification.

Anyhow, very interesting idea. It is one we have been thinking about internally a lot. Please keep the ideas coming. We love hearing from our publisher base since we really want to provide what you guys need and want. Now that I have taken about half a page I think it is time to stop. :-) Take care!

]]> By: Eric Olson http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-101267 Eric Olson Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:34:00 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-101267 That's my cue! Hi Matt, I am both the Eric of VentureWeek (yup, small world! - thank you again for your generous support) and the regular reader of Disruptive Thoughts Fraser is talking about. I too like the idea of some sort of automatic notification of subscription. It would create a bit more community around the feed. Right now we can't tell which of your subscriber base is new, which is the same and who left. This has to do with the way feeds work. There is no way cookie users within a feed and using IP addresses for identification is not accurate (since all of us are on a work IP and home IP during the day and the occasional s'bucks, etc.). I wonder how many publishers out there would like this service. This is something we should figure out. My only concern would be the subscribers privacy. I think a lot of people enjoy feeds since they are anonymous (not mention they a better way to consume content). You don't need to give up your e-mail address or anything personal making the feed completely spam free. However, this could be remedied by someone like us creating an e-mail address that the notification would come from and allowing users the ability to opt-in to the notification. Anyhow, very interesting idea. It is one we have been thinking about internally a lot. Please keep the ideas coming. We love hearing from our publisher base since we really want to provide what you guys need and want. Now that I have taken about half a page I think it is time to stop. :-) Take care! That’s my cue! Hi Matt, I am both the Eric of VentureWeek (yup, small world! - thank you again for your generous support) and the regular reader of Disruptive Thoughts Fraser is talking about. I too like the idea of some sort of automatic notification of subscription. It would create a bit more community around the feed. Right now we can’t tell which of your subscriber base is new, which is the same and who left. This has to do with the way feeds work. There is no way cookie users within a feed and using IP addresses for identification is not accurate (since all of us are on a work IP and home IP during the day and the occasional s’bucks, etc.). I wonder how many publishers out there would like this service. This is something we should figure out. My only concern would be the subscribers privacy. I think a lot of people enjoy feeds since they are anonymous (not mention they a better way to consume content). You don’t need to give up your e-mail address or anything personal making the feed completely spam free. However, this could be remedied by someone like us creating an e-mail address that the notification would come from and allowing users the ability to opt-in to the notification. Anyhow, very interesting idea. It is one we have been thinking about internally a lot. Please keep the ideas coming. We love hearing from our publisher base since we really want to provide what you guys need and want. Now that I have taken about half a page I think it is time to stop. :-) Take care!

]]> By: Fraser http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-126 Fraser Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:32:51 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-126 Well, I know that at least one member of the feedburner team is a regular reader. Let's see if he has anything to say... Well, I know that at least one member of the feedburner team is a regular reader. Let’s see if he has anything to say…

]]> By: Fraser http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-101266 Fraser Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:32:51 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/12/7-quick-thoughts/#comment-101266 Well, I know that at least one member of the feedburner team is a regular reader. Let's see if he has anything to say... Well, I know that at least one member of the feedburner team is a regular reader. Let’s see if he has anything to say…

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