David's dashboard

Hi David - glad you are happy - if you have a feed for the site you can add it just as you did the first one. Enter the URL for the content feed to the text field near the top of the Home page - full content feed is best.

You will be given the URL for the feed of your reuse and the Summary feed will show information for both you sites.

Wow that was quick work - thanks! – David, on March 25, 2009 07:37

In case you are nterested I use the widget on this page (http://support.attributor.com/kbfairs...) and it recently broke so I set the length to a smaller value. – David, on March 25, 2009 07:07

Sorry aobut that Tom. That block should not have been in there till we added "Remove". Please email me (dsimkin@attributor.com) your username and the feed URL with your work and I will get it cleared out.

tom - In the short-term you can add the feed again with a different license. Both FairShare feeds will be available with the feed title showing the different license.

We are moving towards more feed management and will probably go in steps where we allow you to remove and add the feed again and then go to more user friendly ways. This is simply a way to add features quickly and improve over time.

Hi Jeffery and thanks for your recent posts. You did a good job of mapping out a roadmap for FairShare. I think it is safe to say that we intend to evolve in many of the areas that you touched upon.
- Making it easier for users to present material for us to ingest. RSS feeds were simply a good place to start and many of our beta participants already had their material in that format but we do not plan on stopping there. As Rich has suggested on another of your posts (http://getsatisfaction.com/fairshare/...) allowing single pages may be something we can do quickly on the path to consuming web sites or other formats.

As you correctly pointed out the error message that the URL was invalid was not correct and certainly not helpful. This we will be correctly shortly to more accurately reflect the issue and give direction to help the user take some action. Thanks for pointing that out.

- Make it more seamless to apply a license to your work as well as watch how it is used by others. This is definitely part of the vision. Stay tuned for this one.

- Allow users to look at how some of their older work had spread. This is one that is lower down on our priority list as the potential users we have spoken to are most interested in watching how their work spreads immediately after it is published. Of course this is why this kind of interaction with users is so great (we like getsatisfaction also). It helps us understand how our users want to use FairShare and prioritize the features.

Thanks for kind words about our project. We definitely want to help creativity spread and we want to see it happen fairly. Of course what fairly means is not cut an dry and I for one believe that the answers will evolve through engaged participants in open conversation.