{"id":4408,"date":"2004-11-18T20:03:33","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T20:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2004-11-18T20:03:33","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T20:03:33","slug":"project_du","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4408","title":{"rendered":"Project D.U."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seen via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwfusion.com\/compendium\/2004\/006794.html\">Compendium<\/a>, SBC&#8217;s new RSS reader: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectdu.com\/main.asp\">Project D.U.<\/a>.  I guess D.U. stands for Digital Universe.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>proj\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00b7ect \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00b7 d. u.<\/strong><br \/>\n(noun) 1. a reader populated with headlines pulled from across the web. <br \/>\n2. relater of news and rumors <br \/>\n3. hiding place for next month&#8217;s topic of conversation. <br \/>\n4. the center of your Digital Universe. Synonyms: middleman, informant, eavesdropper.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>First off, the site.  It feels like it is trying way too hard to be &#8216;Hip&#8217;.  Almost all the buttons you can click are animated in some way.  Luckily none of them burst into flames.  Next, the Project D.U. Reader. I personally found it to be pretty lame in a bunch of ways.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The interface leaves much to be desired.  It just feels clunky.<\/li>\n<li>When you look at the lists of posts for a blog it only shows you excerpts, even if the blog provides full posts. Clicking on their &#8216;read more&#8217; link opens up the actual post .<\/p>\n<li>No way to export your subscriptions.<\/li>\n<li>No support for enclosures.<\/li>\n<li>Kinda slow and clunky.<\/li>\n<li>When it couldn&#8217;t resolve a hostname right away it told me that the feed was bad.<\/p>\n<li>Project D.U. is a stupid name.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And as I was about to close my browser window on the site, I noticed this on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectdu.com\/about.asp\">about page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the best features of this site, not unlike the advent of color television, is the Project D.U. Reader. It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s filled with headlines from some of the best blogs you\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve never heard of. In fact, we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve spent hundreds, maybe thousands of hours scouring the web, trying to find the most intriguing sites the world has to offer. To be fair, we pay the favored blogs a bit each month for the right to use their stuff. But we don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t edit what they say, that would be a very un-fun read.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait, they are paying the blogs they list money?? How can I get in on that racket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seen via Compendium, SBC&#8217;s new RSS reader: Project D.U..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,136,140,123,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-geeky-stuff","category-strange","category-tech","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}