{"id":19,"date":"2004-07-07T00:40:38","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T08:40:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:40","slug":"bloglines-redesigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/07\/bloglines-redesigned","title":{"rendered":"Bloglines Redesigned!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/images\/inline\/bloglines.gif\" width=\"225\" height=\"50\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" class=\"rightinline\" \/>Well it&#8217;s about half past midnight right now and it looks like Bloglines just relaunched a few minutes ago with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\" target=\"_blank\">spankin&#8217; new design<\/a>. It&#8217;s always weird catching redesigns as they happen. You&#8217;re at the old site one minute, then you click a link and it&#8217;s like the Wizard of Oz all of a sudden.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;ve only played with the shiny new interface for about 20 minutes now, I have to say that I am thoroughly impressed so far. It feels like there is quite a bit of new functionality to enjoy, and yet I don&#8217;t feel disoriented or sick to my stomach as with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">some other recent redesigns<\/a>. A huge part of the challenge in redesigning a major site is to inject freshness while not alienating loyal users. I salute thee, Bloglines, for succeeding in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Among the new features are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A simple point-and-click publishing system for creating your own blog<\/li>\n<li>A new Clippings metaphor to replace the existing Saved Items feature<\/li>\n<li>A skinnable blogroller<\/li>\n<li>A slightly retooled reading interface<\/li>\n<li>A more informative front page<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced searching and sharing capabilities<\/li>\n<li>Sliding-Doors style zoomable tabs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopdesign.com\" target=\"_blank\">a la Douglas Bowman<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and lots of other stuff I&#8217;m too tired to test out right now.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, this looks like another successful improvement of what is already my most visited site on the &#8216;Net. Sure I&#8217;d like to see more interactivity, more out-of-browser functionality, and smarter aggregation routines, but in the meantime, I&#8217;m happy with these incremental improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Content aggregation has not even entered its golden age yet, but Bloglines continues to show us the way when it comes to no-nonsense web-based information gathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s about half past midnight right now and it looks like Bloglines just relaunched a few minutes ago with a spankin&#8217; new design. It&#8217;s always weird catching redesigns as they happen. You&#8217;re at the old site one minute, then you click a link and it&#8217;s like the Wizard of Oz all of a sudden. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}