Monkeymagic has a simple yet compelling suggestion for improving RSS feeds: Add a photo of the author. Why not put a picture pane in the RSS reader so that you can see who is talking? Beyond creating a sense of intimacy that may, over time, help foster more nad different sorts of conversation, it also will help readers (who increasingly have a bazillion feeds in their RSS list) to distinguish the voice of each author from the crowd.
Ironically, the author of monkeymagic himself has neither a picture of himself nor any personal information (a name, even!) on his own site. That’s too bad, because I like his blog a lot and would like to know a bit more about him.
Michael Feldstein is the founder of e-Literate who currently works as the Senior Program Manager for MindTap at Cengage Learning. For more information, see his profile page.
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