As Bloglines bots index the RSS feeds, the images they encounter are added to the queue for displaying on the Image Wall.
Excellent concept but needs lot of work.
Other than staring the changing photographs, there's little you can do with them. And since the photographs are sourced from the entire blogosphere without filtering, the Bloglines Image Wall is definitely not for family viewing.
Here are some suggestions for the Bloglines team to help improve this wonderful project:
1. Allow Bloglines users to define feeds (like via OPML) from where the Image Wall should pick up the images.
2. Each photograph displayed on the Bloglines Image Wall should have a link to the actual blog address and the corresponding RSS feed.
3. There could be a search option to help users create image walls from blog posts that match the search query (like an image wall of "Microsoft Zune Phone")
4. The image wall itself could be offered as an RSS feed and better still, allow snapshots based on datetime just like TechMeme.
Find this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/02/bloglines-wall-of-blog-images.html
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
This is unrelated to this post but is a request for help/tip.
Is there CSS trick to style post as shown in RSS feed differently than as shown on blog? For example, I have some floating divs with text in my blog posts, but RSS feed in my bloglines ignores all the formatting and just shows those text at that place in post. This makes content meaningless (at that point at least) since sentence is out of context. Is there a way I can float div on blog posts but display:none in feeds? -Ashish
Ex: http://meri-awaaz-suno.blogspot.com/
Written on 16/2/07 9:21 PM
Amit, nice idea. Megite will be a good application to implement your ideas and suggestions.
Written on 16/2/07 10:00 PM