The Australian Blogosphere’s #1 Meeting Place
I received a nice email from the Aussie founders of Zookoda, Nick and Yorke a few weeks ago inviting us to a testdrive. After dusting off the RSS feeds for News2.0, I did indeed do just that. A simple-to-follow dashboard and I was up and running in minutes. Great to see local talent taking it head-on.
Yoiks! How did we ever get by with that other layout? Thanks to Joe Stella for pointing that out 
(For Martine at Frangipani…I’m working on less whitespace)
Behold. The News2.0 sidebar link images. This one’s my personal fav.
Want to monitor the AustralianBlogs-osphere from the comfort of your own aggregator?
Just follow the bouncing feed icon…
The 24 hour tagcloud a day after the 2-2 draw against Croatia (appropriately sprinkled with Brazil, Croatia, Italy and all things Socceroo/World Cup).
I have been thinking about what Cameron Reilly had said to me re the News2.0 opt-out option for blogs listed on AustralianBlogs.com.au - ie. how do we address concerns re copyright abuse?
News2.0 is about showcasing local content. It’s meant to drive traffic back towards the original blog. So it makes sense that we should not be replicating blog post content verbatim. Even if the blogger uses full RSS feeds, I think it would work better if we truncated the blog posts shown on News2.0 - all roads should point back to the original blog post and thus the original blog.
To this end, we have added some code to truncate content after 600 characters. I hope this is enough to whet the appetite of the blog lurker so as to induce a clickthrough to the original blog post.
UPDATE: Just cleaning up some rogue
