Friday January 9, 2009
Welcome. Now, don't come back.
If your RSS feed is well-highlighted (like, so a 6 year old could subscribe to it) and contains the right level of detail (unlike this blog), then your experience design should really focus on first-time visitors. Great blogs never require me to return.
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Blogs that are only concerned with content (not context) never require you to return. Those that are concerned with both should make it easy for you not to, but compel you to do so.
Otherwise, why bother making the URL contents styled beyond the layout of an RSS feed?
Feeds don’t provide enough context, but is that because they can’t, or because we just don’t focus on them? Pondering what value there is in styling a blog is actually what got me here – mainly because I’m not sure what context a feed can’t afford.
I think the design strategy we put into our URL can translate to an RSS feed, just maybe a different expression of that strategy.
Just noted that you added the # of comments to your RSS post titles. Nice detail!