Wed, 20 Mar 2002
Improving the usability of Radio Userland's news page
I think that posting articles from the news page in Radio Userland would be much smoother if the checkboxes to the left of each article could be used to post in the same fashion that they're currently used to delete. That is, with a post button near the delete button. This is a typical interaction model on the web, one that I'm surprised has not been copied here.
The individual post buttons provide no incremental value beyond indicating whether the article has been posted. That behavior could continue in a similar vein. I just think I could post more articles quickly if I could do it in one button click. Then I could annotate them together as well.
BTW, this occurred to me after I subscribed to a bunch of the NY Times stuff that Dave Winer pushed out today. Boy, was that long overdue. I was suffering through the various attempts to syndicate that content and it wasn't working very well. Userland's syndication kills. Thanks Dave! Did I mention that I never met a guy named Dave that I didn't like? I call it the Dave club.
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