Comments on: ACS PUBS Redesign Brings Chaos To the RSS Masses

By: caseypants

caseypants — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:43:28 +0000

Hey Mitch,
Thanks for letting us know about this!!
You saved my graduate career!! Thank you thank you thank you.

By: mitch

mitch — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:54:04 +0000

John: RSC started having their articles link to social news sites a while ago, ACS had to respond in kind. The next step will be the ability to comment on articles, hopefully I’ll get around to coding that feature at ChemFeeds and HotCites before they do.

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:18:25 +0000

Mitch: Thanks for the link. Interesting that ACS is concerned with social networking as well as social news sites.

By: mitch

mitch — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:14:31 +0000

JACS beta took a poll and facebook by far was the social network that most people voted for:
http://pubs.acs.org/JACSbeta/

I’ve never used Slashdot or LinkedIn, I prefer Reddit and Facebook.

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:48:11 +0000

New ACS Journals website: This appears to be the only blog dealing with the new website, and since users cannot start new blogs–not without invitation–I guess this is the best place to comment on the website upgrade.

Does anyone else find it strange, in the “Recommend & Share” section, that there are Digg and Facebook links? In my opinion, more relevant websites for dissemination of scientific information and for social networking are Slashdot and LinkedIn, respectively.

By: mitch

mitch — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:38:09 +0000

Stan: Creating a feed that uses the larger images is well within my abilities, but far outside my job description.

By: Stan

Stan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:23:35 +0000

Graphics are back up but they are extremely small. Any chance at getting larger graphics. Also, I feel that the schemes and pictures in the new abstracts are also very small.

By: Rachel Pepling

Rachel Pepling — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:53:23 +0000

Hey Mitch, I just got the word that the images are back.

By: mitch

mitch — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:33:48 +0000

The images are in the feed too. I’m just reformatting them on the fly to display properly. I could just remove the ad if asked, it really isn’t the biggest deal.

By: Rich Apodaca

Rich Apodaca — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:12:30 +0000

Perhaps the feed itself – the actual XML. But what about the images, which are being hosted on chemfeeds.com and appear to be copied from the corresponding journal’s site?