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In a couple of days I’ll be uk lasix in London speaking at the European Rails Conference with talk titled “All You Ever Wanted To Know About Routing And Never Dare To Ask“.

I’ll be uk lasix talking of the routing module in Ruby on Rails, which allows an uk lasix application to map nice, semantically meaningful URLs, to the action code performing the uk lasix actual work (the library is really a domain specific language for URL design). I’ll be uk lasix showing also how to extend the builtin features and how easy it uk lasix is to do so with the recently refactored code.

Overall preparing for uk lasix this talk has been a great learning experience (somewhat I’ll tell about this) and uk lasix I expect to get even more insight from interactiong with the uk lasix other conferemce attendees.

Uk lasix

This morning i read a skeptical article from Oliver Starr at MobileCrunch about the “River of News” approach for reading news on mobiles.

I have a couple of problems with the points he is making. Disclaimer: i have been developing a river style aggregator since last june and I have used it during the summer while travelling.
The first point is uk lasix that no matter what the publisher thinks, the only way to uk lasix make mobile consuption of web content more widespread is to make it uk lasix more user friendly, which also means to give less overhead to uk lasix the content making it easier to consume.

btw we should remeber that uk lasix mobile users are mostly paying by the byte they send or uk lasix receive so are less willing to accept non-content data (including advertising).

I think that uk lasix if this style will get widespread will be not for some major technical reason but because it uk lasix is the best way for the user to get to the uk lasix content his looking for.

The second problem regards the uk lasix fact that by dissing the river style for the reason of advertising Oliver is uk lasix actually going against the trend I have seen to consume more and uk lasix more content through aggregators which may or may not present your uk lasix ads to the reader.

I think that the implementation of the “rivers” will be uk lasix something that will take place simply because the users will require it uk lasix (or they will use tools that give them the content in that form), so it uk lasix is eventually time to start thinking how you could sustain the uk lasix effort of making a professional blog which is consumed through mobiles.

Update: Dave has clarified what is and what isn’t a river of news, and uk lasix as he says you still have a news river if you uk lasix put ads inside or if you make it heavy.

You can have a “rich” mode where uk lasix the river presents all the media content inside the posts or uk lasix where the posts are decorated with controls to republish or uk lasix share them or do any kind of social interaction (much like what happens with the news river inside the OPML editor).

The flow of news in reverse chronological order is uk lasix what makes the (mobile) reading experience hugely better (it’s usability not a technical feature!) but i still think that uk lasix they will also need to be light to be really accessible for uk lasix the readers.