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Exploring the 2010 Web - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Daniel Rowley, Franz Binder, christoph richter and 83 other people liked this
My blog's new design is up: http://scobleizer.com -- more to come soon as I have more fun with my blog again now that it's hosted on a Rackspace server. Thank you to Vid Luther at Rackspace for helping me get it up and running.
- Robert Scoble
lovely Robert but not very unique. I just mean, isn't it based on a fairly popular wordpress theme?
- Zee.
Zee: yes, it is. It's the Thesis theme, which is very nice. Great SEO, great foundation. I will be adding more personality to it over time.
- Robert Scoble
I like it Robert. Simple yet elegant. :) I recomend trying out the wptouch plugin for a mobile-friendly layout.
- Daynah
Surprised you went with Thesis. I was beginning to think it was too old school now that everyone is using it.
- Dickie Maxx
I don't want it to be unique right now. I wanted to tear it back down to the basics. Plus, most people read me in an RSS reader anyway so the design doesn't matter that much (or you'll see my posts here on friendfeed or Twitter or Facebook and then you just want to be able to read the damn thing when you get there.
- Robert Scoble
It's very plain but professional, it makes you focus on the content more than anything else.
- Ahmed
Dickie: it works, which is why everyone is using it.
- Robert Scoble
i love the thesis theme, dont get me wrong but i just think someone of your stature should have something custom built or heavily modified to suit you. But that's just me
- Zee.
You sometimes produces some great matter worth reading it :) I like Robert too ;)
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
Zee: what, the friendfeed component isn't enough custom? Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
when i have some time, i'm going to put together a design for ya i reckon. Because although you're not a startup, you do deserve your own scobleized design...something that no one else has
- Zee.
Zee: I'm open to it. Now that I understand what's going on in all the pieces I'm more open to playing around.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I like the general concept but I'd like to see a dark frame around the page, instead of the whitish one you tossed in. Second thing I'd use, is the "read-more" break that sends readers into the post instead of reading the entire article in the front page. IMO it's annoying to have such a long Home page.
- Nir Ben Yona
its very simple..yet very readable. I like it :)
- Saad Kamal
but don't get me wrong, i love the thesis theme - but i just think, as it is and considering who you are, you need something more unique
- Zee.
Hey, I love the whitespaces....that's what makes me read blogs....
- Manu Srikumar
Nir: see, that's where I disagree. Most of my readers come from Google Reader, twitter, friendfeed, or later, from search engines like Google. If you are coming there to read a single article you don't want to have to click through. I +HATE+ that about TechCrunch. I assumed they did it to get more page views. I don't care about page views.
- Robert Scoble
10 Ways to Customize Thesis and Enhance Your Blog http://tinyurl.com/dkgko8 ;)
- Ahmed
It works for what it does: "Inform, Educate and Markets Your Passion" dont worry about design, you can freak it out later on with a flashy design or light colors. Thesis is very flexible, easy and you can create some serious new layout in time. I read you via Google Reader, so most time, I never to blog site anyways, keep experimenting, Tiger Woods broke his great swing to create a new one too, congrats
- Jonathan Fleming
Zee: Interesting I would have thought the other way, because who he is that Robert doesnt nee something flashy. Me on the other hand I need something to wow people.
- Dickie Maxx
Clean design. Needs a mobile or iPhone viewing option. Also wondered if too many posts showing on frontpage (this might be a consequence if accessing through an iPhone).
- Andrew Long
I use Thesis for most of my blogs - from highly customised http://www.websitedoctor.com/ to uncustomised http://sportcrazy.net/ - it's a great theme. I love using hooks
- Alastair McDermott
Nice and simple. But it must be way past your bed time. Get some sleep
- Tim Child
Hi Robert, i think it works for what you want it for, all your posts and all your updates and social spaces ... i think it works. The only thing i would say is that the social spaces section should fit inside the themes top lines. :)
- clairestokoe
By the way, if you didn't catch the Real Time Search panel discussion I linked to there, you should watch that. Very interesting stuff is cooking in that field.
- Robert Scoble
"by ADMIN", Robert? And the other articles say 'by on'! Aren't you supposed to be a tech guru? ;)
- Shéa Bennett
I like the clean look, but the page is LOOOOOONG and takes a while to load. Maybe a prolific (micro-)blogger like you should go with more of a "newspaper" (or is it "magazine"?) layout (a là Feedly) that highlights articles and topics better.
- Grey Drane
Shea: oh, crap. I forgot to log in as myself. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
Grey: most of my posts aren't so long as this one.
- Robert Scoble
No, but the page shows a whole long list of full-text posts.
- Grey Drane
Mature, newspaperish, classic, back to basics. I do like your previous theme more; the one with you and the camera at the top.
- Tomi Itkonen
Grey: I just changed it to only display three posts. Thanks.
- Robert Scoble
Personally, I don't like lime green (any citrus colours) with that much white. Layout-wise, I like wider rather than narrow. Otherwise, fine. And the link in this post's title can't be found - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
- Mark H
Tomi: I'm going to introduce another banner photo. I will have Guy Kawaski shoot one of me on the Nimitz.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, it loads fast enough for me but excerpts are usually preferable to full articles on the front page. They should be long enough to get your interested in seeing how it finishes, but loads of front-page text can be off-putting.
- Shéa Bennett
I'd love to see a live webcam of your browser in the right side - showing how you flip through content as you search for interesting ideas, play on FF, etc
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I'm still seeing 10 full-length articles on the front page (not three).
- Shéa Bennett
Robert: you got me right, I was referring to TC style, but I do hear ya on this one. That said, you should consider customizing the Thesis, I really liked the previous header [Edit: just noticed you're going to replace the banner photo after all].
- Nir Ben Yona
Shea: it should be three now, sorry. Mark, what link can't be found? It works here. Nir: I will bring back a header soon.
- Robert Scoble
No header please Robert. I like the simplicity.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Looks simple and readable. But i read your blog posts in a rss reader
- Shuuro
Robert: It's the link in your original post - "Exploring the 2010 web" - I just get "Page not found" and "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria..."
- Mark H
Mark, weird. Here that links to this page which works for me: http://scobleizer.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
Clean, streamlined, classic. With utmost respect to Shea, I prefer full articles on blogs with one primary author. I'm there to read a person's perspectives, not browse like a news service. The "by" is reading Admin, which I'd change to Robert...a little more personal. :) Other than that I like the simplicity. Oh, and also like the '2010 Web' theme. Indicates forward thinking without seeming too bandwagon-y
- AllisonWagda
Allison: I just changed that, should be working its way through the system now.
- Robert Scoble
Allison, you don't think a lot of text can be off-putting, particularly if the first (lead) article is of no interest, and you have to wade down a lot of text/paragraphs to find the next one? I think the excerpt should deliver the hook, and you click through to read more, personally. Each to their own, I guess. :)
- Shéa Bennett
Noticed you're posting as "Admin" -- should change that. Otherwise, looking great!
- CG
Great, then no complaints from here (at least from my 3 a.m. blurry eyes)
- AllisonWagda
Its minimalistic and cool.
- Zoran Vuletic
Robert, weird indeed. Tried with three browsers (and IE7 didn't like that error page at all - theme not working right there) and they all report the same. Maybe a transparent proxy somewhere along my route to your site.
- Mark H
Nice and clean Robert I like it
- Jim Lyons
I wish the friendfeed Widget wrapped comments better and also showed my likes and comments on other people's posts.
- Robert Scoble
Oh, and I got rid of the green photo. Hope that makes someone happy. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Shea, you're totally right, It can be off-putting - especially if you're looking to browse headlines and have to scroll endlessly. Maybe my opinion depends on how often he expects to blog. If more than 2 per day, I could be swayed to your side. If 1-2 per day, I'd rather have it served straight than have to click through to read the rest :)
- AllisonWagda
nice clean design but right hand column would look even better if everything was the same width
- Anita Hunt
Allison: I would expect to be one to five times a day, with bias toward one post a day.
- Robert Scoble
The Facebook Connect feature by Sociable is a neat idea. I might have to look into that.
- Shéa Bennett
I'll try to fix the widths in the morning.
- Robert Scoble
I found it nice but a bit generic for u. Can I still push for an hand of a light gray on the background? Your profile pic, top right could be more "american". About this latter some Twitter background could inspire :-)
- Daniele Beta
Robert: It's possible to get those FF comments in the widget to wrap (as they do with the "likes") -- look at the CSS for .friendfeed.widget .feed .entry .comment
- CG
Christopher: hmm, I gotta play with the CSS more. I tried playing around with it and couldn't get it to wrap right, but must not have nailed it.
- Robert Scoble
Then my vote, FWIW, is for keeping the continuous posts
- AllisonWagda
Robert: You have to "overwrite" FriendFeed's CSS for that selector -- specifically the white-space: nowrap. Hope that helps
- CG
Displaying three to five posts is a good compromise.
- Nir Ben Yona
there's more about you than the stuff in the sidebar, your tv stuff, bldg 43 stuff, wikipedia link, etc. am not sure where is the best place to put all that
- Tweet Feeds
Tweet: yeah, I'll keep tweaking it and making it simpler/nicer. Thanks to you and everyone for all the feedback!
- Robert Scoble
how do you get the disqus comments to show up on FF?
- Tweet Feeds
The fact that "It's all you" (minus "your tv stuff, bldg 43 stuff, wikipedia link, etc." as noted above) without bells and whistles is a breath of fresh air in a world where we're marketed to death by brands comnsuming every inch of space. But isn't web simplicity so 1994? (I jest.)
- This One Wild Life
Kim: hey, they had SOME good ideas back in 1994. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Tweet: Disqus is one of the services that friendfeed supports. You've got to add the service to your profile. Click "add/edit" on top of your page.
- Robert Scoble
A rock solid header banner and a custom color detail (such as a border) is all you need to add to Thesis. Keep it white. Way to go!
- E-Advocate Network
Mark: right, I'm off to bed now. See ya!
- Robert Scoble
Robert: quick fix for "Admin" posts in Wordpress: Add New User: Robert, full admin rights, logout, login as Robert, Delete User: Admin, assign all posts to user Robert, done. Buy @AMcDermott beer.
- Alastair McDermott
Alastair: I just renamed the Admin account to Robert Scoble. Seems to have worked. Did I miss one?
- Robert Scoble
Robert: that's another way to do it - your userid is still admin, my way would have removed that (security by almost zero obscurity) ;)
- Alastair McDermott
Robert: you also avoid having to buy me beer :(
- Alastair McDermott
I like the simplicity; white space is good. Now you need to help the rest of us by, say, turn features such as your FriendFeed setup into WordPress plugins. And I fully agree on the choice of Thesis for a theme; great flexibility.
- Jim Courtney
Mark: switching to a self-hosted blog running on a good framework is a good investment of time; future proofing yourself
- Alastair McDermott
I've been thinking about using the Thesis theme and growing up my blog from there. I like it! About Rackspace, I probably wouldn't need it for something as small as me eh?! I've been considering it, but like I've mentioned, I'm not that big! =) Nice setup.
- Elijah Nicolas
You say that building the 2010 web is still too hard for average folks, but what about turn-key "bundles" like ning?
- Dr. Headcrash
Wordpress is written in PHP, not Python ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Love Thesis. Great theme, great SEO. VERY customizable. Can't wait to see what you do with it.
- Bob Linger
Sup Scoble, the theme you've choosed looks a lot like the one i use in my blog, simple, clean and functional. I liked it. By the way, i see you're using the friendfeed widget. A few months ago i've coded for myself a wp plugin that connects to ff api and build a widget from your feed much like that one, with the advantage that's SEO friendly, easier to customize the style and with more...
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- Diego Sana
I thought Disqus would integrate with FriendFeed but perhaps not? There are 90+ comments in here on FriendFeed and only 30 comments in Disqus on the blog? Shouldn't Disqus synchronize both the blog and the FriendFeed thread?
- Charbax
Charbax: good point. I need to figure out how to do that. I think Disqus only integrates them if you've added Disqus to your friendfeed account.
- Robert Scoble
Quiet, clean, subtle design, not sure it's you, but let us get used to it :)
- Michael Metz
mimetz: it's not very personalized, but it does work great on an iPhone! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Looks really good on the iPhone,
- Hunter
The new design is clean and "textual". Nice!
- Rick Cogley
The only think I don't like in your new blog look is the Google Friend Connect bar in the bottom.
- Miguel Caetano
I have a 1024 x 768 screen. The blog appears to be set up for a widescreen display. If I zoom out to where it fits on the screen horizontally, the text is too small to read. Sites that require that I either scroll horizontally to read, or adjust both the page zoom and the text zoom separately I often pass on by.
- Chuck Baggett
nice! i love thesis
- andy brudtkuhl
yeah, thesis is a good one... congrats, looks good
- Peter Efland
Ground-breaking article, Robert. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.
- Franz Binder
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