Feedback for News Team - Links on Weekly Squeak

> From: Michael Davies
>
> On Nov 15, 2007 7:43 PM, Ron Teitelbaum <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Some blog links were added to the Weekly Squeak.
>
> Hi Ron,
>
> That was me experimenting with the blog-roll function - I'm sorry to
> say I wasn't aware of the function of planet.squeak.org, and so I'd
> started replicating its role! My apologies to all for any confusion
> caused.
>
> > When I asked why the only
> > comment I got was that we have a blog aggregator already
> > http://planet.squeak.org (which I took as a suggestion that these links
> are
> > not necessary)
> >
> > What I'd like to ask everyone is this:
> >
> > 1) Should the Weekly Squeak have external links on it?
> >         1a) If you think we should have links what links should we have?
> >         1b) What should be the criteria, and process for changing the
> list?
>
> Interesting question - one thing I hadn't realised until you asked it
> is that we don't even have a link to the Squeak homepage from
> news.squeak.org at the moment! Adding that seems a good idea.
>
> > 2) Should we replace these links with internal links like
> planet.squeak.org?
> >
>
> It's neater to maintain the list once, so I'm happy that we should
> replace what I've done with a link to planet.squeak.org. That does
> raise one point though: it might be confusing if people clicked on
> such a link to find it contained many articles that they had just read
> on news.squeak.org. Is there any value in treating news.squeak.org and
> planet.squeak.org as separate feeds - ie separating the news from the
> personal articles? That would also make it possible for sites to show
> headlines from both news.squeak and planet.squeak, which would help
> raise the visibility of the latter.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael