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More from Bloglines–Their Defense

Bloglines’ official response from this (different) Bloglines forum:

Re: Image Wall is [...] Wall

Posted by: dloc(IP Logged)

Date: February 19, 2007 06:36AM

The Image Wall is meant to be a snapshot of what is out there. It can be used both as a tool to find new interesting feeds as well as just to watch and see what people think is cool.

However, unlike a purely Flickr wall, we are pulling images from RSS feeds all over the internet. This means that just as you will see adult images, you may also see various political, current-event, sports related, technology-oriented, or miscellaneous images on the internet.

If you find an image to be offensive, please report that image. We go through our logs daily to cull out domains that store images our users find offensive.

And my reply (am I missing something?):

Re: Image Wall is [...] Wall

[My reply]

Date: February 19, 2007 08:53PM

Educators and people at the work place won’t be able to use Bloglines because of Image Wall. And marking pictures as offensive? a) We’re all busy; b) There will always be more.

Not a good idea, this. Boycotts are being discussed.

It’s not a great feature anyway.

I really urge a cost-benefit analysis. So far, I’ve seen more people responding with “Great–I can’t use Bloglines at work or school any more” because of this, far more than people saying, “Wow. Image Wall is so great I’ll drop my service with (name you’re far more widget-friendly reader) just to sign up with BL for this great top-down widget.”

Why not let USERS choose widgets? This is what Netvibes does.

I don’t mean to be rude, but you seem to be behind the times in your approach to web 2.0.