Microsoft and Adobe Get Blogging Props
Since I’m starting at Adobe on Tuesday I thought it would be a good idea to add the full Adobe Blogs RSS feed to my feedreader so I can keep up with what else is going on inside the company. Because I’ve been following Macromedia blogs so long I had unfortunately gotten used to partial text feeds. But the Adobe blog feed is all full text so you can quickly and easily get all of the info from every blog at Adobe.
MSDN Blogs is the same way, so it was very cool to see both of these companies “get it”. Now I want to see more ex-Macromedia people move over to the Adobe blog system so I can follow them more easily. It’s a *fairly* low traffic feed, so if you’re interested, it’s worth subscribing to the whole thing.
[tags]Adobe, Microsoft, Blogging[/tags]
Posted in Rich Internet Applications
May 24th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
The Macromedia blogging system has been in maintainence mode for quite awhile.
Now that CS3 is out the door there’s funding for some long-overdue changes to the publishing system(s), but the aggregation system is not included in that.
(I think that most blogs would benefit from getting their point across in the first 50 words, then following it up with additional text as an option… same way newspapers do it.)
jd
May 24th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Amen
it’s so hard to keep track of the competition via disparate approaches – I am kidding ;P
Actually when I first opened up my MSDN blog, I had partial articles in the feeds, boy did I regret that decision fast as I got hammered with complaints (even my boss gave me a nudge).
Now I wish more blogs would do it. Actually your ZDNet blog has been somewhat annoying as your first paragraph gives the Adobe Disclosure thing – so now i have to actually read your posts man.. you’re killing me
You know what would rock, New Yorks Time Reader style aggregator of blog posts with each respective blogs chosen ads on their respective posts..
Scott / Microsoft.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:38 am
Unfortunately the blogs.adobe.com server isn’t very good – that’s why most of us ex-Macromedia folks have avoided it. For example, it only aggregates blogs hosted on that server. We’re actually looking at making some major improvements to MXNA (weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna) this year. We can then just have a dedicated feed for Adobe employee blogs.
MD