Phil's dashboard

I look forward to seeing the changes.

By the way, the comment/post to your blog didn't post correctly. I get a 404 error from the link.

One additional possibility is to have an option and mechanism to pop it up on request. E.g., a feedly mini indicator on the status line that opens mini when clicked.

Sounds like things are heading in a very interesting direction with the 4 items above.

As I understand it, the topic-centric approach described above is really keyword-centric. I expect such an approach to be useful, but obviously single keywords (or keyphrases) are not an ideal way to organize into conceptual topics. For example, if I search my feeds for "Whole Foods", I get otherwise unrelated posts on an ongoing Antitrust case, organic farmers in the Central Valley, and Onion T'faya. Unless I really am interested in Whole Foods generally, I would want to distinguish them. The same goes for muting.

I am curious whether you intend to tackle this issue or to instead stick to simpler keyword approach.

It's probably complicated to go much beyond the conceptual framework that you have, but would it complicate things too much to have a tracking option that encompasses multiple keywords/phrases? It seems like this would essentially be saved Explore searches.

I think the simpler fix is just to disallow inline expansion on the cover page.

It is reproducible for me.

Within a category, I pick a feed, open the edit box and put it in a new category while taking it out of the old one. Its articles still show in the old category both on the category page and on the cover page (its articles also show up in the new category both places). Refreshing doesn't solve the problem.

Too easy to accidentally activate when I don't want contextual information. Too many of the keywords it identifies are unlikely to result in interesting related articles (e.g., "U.S. Senate" in an article on Blagojevich). I do have it on, mainly too see if it has changed (recall the implementation we discussed sometime back).

When there is a keyword I'm interested in, the Explore page seems like a better approach than Calais. It provides much better content.

I imagine it is tricky to automatically pick out the most relevant keywords from an article. How about a way to pop up a list of top (most active) keywords in an article and letting me select one (or more) to do an explore search?

On the subject of Explore. I like the list of articles from a single news source, currently NYTimes, but what if I'd prefer a different source like the Washington Post, or something else? It would be nice to be able to choose that.

I'd still like to see an unread only option for Explore.

Have a great weekend!

Bump

This bug is still present. Recategorization does not take effect immediately. Moved feeds show up in the old category page (though not in the category list sidebar) and in the old category on the cover page.

Will do. Thanks.

Re #2, from Home if I click on the topic (e.g. Macworld), I am taken to an Explore Macworld page. After working the topic a bit, if I go back (using the Firefox back key combination) I go to the cover page rather than the Home page.

I do have the topics know turned on.

Regarding the relevance of topics, it's a mixed bag. I haven't spent a lot of time using the topics as I only recently discovered it (cover is my start page) and I've had a busy time these last weeks. When it identifies top news stories it is a very useful format to browsing what is out there on a topic and I like being able to see what my sources have to say on the topic a lot (along with the mark-as-read).

On the other hand, the selection of topics seems to be skewed toward topics discussed on high volume sites although the volume doesn't necessarily reflect my level of interest. For example, I'm not a Mac or IPod person, but right now the top two out of the five topics are Apple related. This must be because I do subscribe to a few high volume sites like Engaget with a lot of posts on that issue right now.

I don't know how the topic ranking algorithm works but it would be nice if it weighs more heavily topics that have a lot of articles in my favorite sources relative to non-favorites. Engaget is not marked as a favorite but it seems to have a disproportionate impact on rankings.

I have a similar issue with the three top articles on the home page, they tend to be things that are generally popular with feedly readers rather than of greatest interest to me (e.g., right now all three are from tech blogs, although I am interested in news, politics, and certain economic and legal blogs as much or more than tech topics).

I look forward to seeing how mute and track work.

By the way, I wonder if you have thought about putting the topics on the cover page or, even better, combining the topics with the toggleable search bar. It would be great to have access to it from other pages (and even greater if the topics shown could reflect the context from which it was opened e.g., top topics in a category).

Finally, glad I could help out with feedly in 2008 and look forward to continuing in 2009. It's a great product and I'm proud that some of my suggestions have gone toward improving it. When it makes it big, I'll see if I can't get you to give me a ride on the corporate jet.

Here's another malformat example:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/12/23...

Resulting in: