Lost Remote adds ‘The Wire’
Cory Bergman August 19th, 2007
I’ve replaced the “blogroll” on Lost Remote with a RSS feed mashup from those same sites. It spits out a stream of stories and blog posts updated every fifteen minutes. The most recent 15 stories appear in the right column, and click “Wire” in the nav to visit a full page of the latest 50. It’s still a little glitchy, and I’ll be tweaking it over the next few days.
6 Comments Add your own
1. Safran | August 20th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Well done - didn’t know this was coming, and it’s a big improvement. Blogrolls are old - this is more of the Live Web.
2. tdc | August 20th, 2007 at 10:01 am
why can’t you have both? there’s plenty of space down your sidebar.
evidently media post has figured out the weighting of this system… they have 4 spots out of what, 10?
none from THE BEST either, paidcontent and terry’s handywork.
3. Amanda | August 20th, 2007 at 10:56 am
TVWeek has RSS feeds.
Click on my name for the feed URL.
4. Cory | August 20th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Ah, thanks Amanda…
TDC, lemme play with that…
Cory
5. Darrien | August 20th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
I thought this was a content deal with HBO…
Rats!
6. discreet_chaos | August 21st, 2007 at 8:09 am
I’ll also add my whatever and say that I like this new feature. Over the past two days, I’ve clicked on it two or three times and only once was I disappointed at the the result.
It is definitely along the lines of that aggregate/distribute model that Jarvis recently wrote about and which prompted a few comments from me, so I thought that I’d say: Obviously, aggregate/distribute works with sectors, such as tech, politics, etc, but the difference is that outside of the larger cities, “local” is a considerably smaller segment.
And, though “The Wire” may be successful as a company, they are in the business of aggregate/distribute, so it’s their only focus and they can adjust their expectations to reflect its reality. After all, I’ve clicked the thing a couple of times and that will probably be a daily occurance, but I’m sure the traffic generated for the websites are proportionately small, so the widget itself is probably doing nothing for their bottom lines.
Still Cory - I like the widget and good job.
(Also, I agree with tdc and it looks like there’s still room for the blogroll, down below. If nothing else, the widget has to give Rex’s site short shrift)
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