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Scrolling or Clicking for posts?

Dave Winer writes about two schools of Aggregator UI’s. “One says that they should work like a mail reader, the other that it should work like a weblog.” It boils down to, scrolling to the next post or clicking to the next post. Which one do you like to read your subscriptions in? Radio and manilas’ aggregators along with most webbased aggregators like feed-me follow the weblog school. Also, Dan Gillmore wants blog ranking to be considered while displaying the posts. Marc Canter says, “We are trying to achieve rankings for blogs based on topics with K-collector.” I like my “blogging school” aggregator and I’d like my own rankings for it based on how many times I click on each post.

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