Asymptomatic

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WordPress Generative Feed Plugin Idea
June 21, 2005

Mark at WTC got me thinking about comment forms inside RSS feeds. I think there might be a more complete solution to his thoughts and to some ideas I had been having about the difficulty of following discussions in the comments of RSS-aggregated sites.

One thing I really dislike about feeds is having to subscribe to a feed for every post where I leave a comment. I can understand it if it’s the only post I ever intend to leave at a place, but it might be handy to track more than one post’s comments without subscribing to individual post comment feeds – especially for sites that already have their main post feed listed in my aggregator. How difficult would it be to eliminate some of the tedium from this process?

WordPress provides a mechanism for publishing the URL of the comment feed, but as far as I am aware, no feed reader supports reading this tag, nor does the tag itself offer a way for the feed to notify the user of evolving discussions. For example, it might be nice to see how many comments there are on a post before choosing to subscribe to the comment feed.

Here is my elaborate plan for change:

Batman Before
June 20, 2005

You know what might be interesting? All of you comic book fans will probably jump on me for this, already knowing five versions of the thing I’m about to say should exist, but here goes:

It might be interesting to learn that Bruce Wayne’s father was some kind of vigilante himself. Maybe not in a tights-and-gadgets capacity, but with all the money the Waynes have, he’s likely to have funded and overseen some kind of vigilante group. He seems (at least from his short appearance in Batman Begins) to be a forthright kind of guy.