Updated Items: Display as New
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
If you use a news aggregator, then you have probably seen this setting, or something like it. Basically it means that you will only get the first posting of an entry, but not any edits if they occur. Usually I set this to "Ignore" knowing how many times I have to go back and correct my own spelling.
But for media sites, I like to leave this as "Display as New" because I like to see what edits occur. Its comical how some people out there so want to capitalize on blogs and their appeal to regular folks, and yet try hard to maintain their air of infallibility.
Case in point: this article that originally appeared on ZDNet on the 10th. In the first article, the author talks about his podcast. His blog has an RSS feed available on the page, and yet the feed has no enclosure statement and thus, no podcast. This of course was something on which I had a burning need to comment - which I did.
So today the same article appears in my Bloglines: an edit.
But no comments, no corrections... just the same article with the following lines added to the bottom:
Okay, cool. So he has a separate feed for his podcasts. One that he forgot to mention; one that's not even on his article about his podcast. Hey, it happens. I didn't know that when I left the comment. But of course, by re-writing the article rather than commenting, and leaving my comment there, he's basically trying to make me look like an idiot.
Not the first time. From here on out, and forever more I will be that "idiot who made the random comment on ZDNet." I can live with that.
Next week's lesson: link redirection.
posted by Russell @ 8:11 PM,
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