Training Blogs...All in One Place

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Training Blogs...All in One Place
Pageflakes has been around for a while but this Training Blogs page is relatively new. I aggregate something like 400 blogs, so I would say that Karl Kapp's use of the word "all" is a bit different from mine. But it does point to a weakness in the PageFlakes model of information display - when you array blogs for scanning, the upper limit is maybe 20 on a page (I'm sure a usability study could pin that down to 18.37 but you get the idea). Another problem is currency - I found myself clicking on a post from last April - because the scanning display doesn't disappear posts when they get old. I also don't like the constant pop-ups displaying feed text - you can't move your mouse at all without hitting a half dozen of them. More...