I need to make some decisions with what to do with Schwag. There are two real directions and I just cannot decide which I want to take. Part of me thinks I should keep it real simple and make it a planet.gnome.org like aggregator that would be used as generation tool for multi-user / public sites. The other half of me really wants to develop this personal portal thing. This goes more in the direction of a single-user, desktop aggregator/reader that has really strong aggregating and reading facilities as well as the ability to act as a bookmark manager type thing.
It just occured to me that the reason I started this project was because I wanted a reader similar in scope to AmphetaDesk that I could then implement bayesian filters in. At some point I decided that aggregation and conversion were important.
I'm just kind of frustrated. It may be that what I'm looking for is a lot of different stuff that needs broken up into separate projects. For instance, schwag could provide the aggregation and feed normalization and another app could handle the whole bookmark management stuff. It should be trivial to integrate normalized feeds into the bookmark manager.
Posted by Ryan Tomayko at February 13, 2004 02:16 AM | TrackBack