Comments on: Counterparties.com arrives

By: alexSch

alexSch — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:36:14 +0000

this is very exciting!

my humble 2 cents:
your blog is a great place for the one-line write-ups of old, while counterparties can be the place to expand.
ALSO: the counterparties RSS feed leaves some to be desired. the body of the post simply repeats the headline. the post itself would be ideal, but just noting the source in the body would go a long way.

best of luck. looking forward.

By: andres.haz

andres.haz — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:39:21 +0000

Thank you very much for the invite on Percolate and congratulations on your new blog. If I may give my opinion, I don’t think it would be a good idea to tweet every story at Counterparties, I would rather prefer to receive a tweet now and then with a sort of “reminder”, i.e. a great article or story. Greetings from Germany, readingfortoday.tumblr.com

By: DanPorter

DanPorter — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:52:06 +0000

Congratulations on the site. While filled with generated content, hopefully we’ll see something of the “Felix touch” with an editorial or two.

By: kahmet

kahmet — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:25:15 +0000

Thanks for the efforts, Felix. Great stuff, in deed.

I think that it would be nice if I could have your Brew items on counterparties.com site (these are the items that you have tagged and/or commented on, I guess) as a separate RSS feed (together with your comments, of course).

By the way, is there a way to have the list of your Google Reader feeds? As an OPML file or anyhow. I’ve understood that the source for the counterparties.com content is the people you follow on Twitter plus the feeds you follow on Google Reader. The former of these is already listed on Twitter, but what are those feeds that you follow?

Thank you.

By: MickWeinstein

MickWeinstein — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:16:00 +0000

It’s terrific and congrats on the launch. As I tweeted to you, I think it could get even better if you can incorporate the best responses/discussion about these stories/landing pages, as TechMeme does at its best. A long list of identical tweets as ‘Sources’ doesn’t add a whole lot of value if they’re not also saying something, but links to smart discussion around that topic would. Maybe I’ll build that on top of the Counterparties feed (only half joking)…

Please do keep your own Counterparties – especially now that you’re adding some more commentary around it. I think you should tweet out everything, but consider creating a twitter acct for Tier One Counterparties, the more select stuff.

You didn’t comment on the name Counterparties, which I think is brilliant. A third party that’s essential to you doing business and therefore also can pose risk if it’s not itself healthy. That’s how today’s web functions for news orgs, but it’s still so rarely acknowledged in the explicit manner of this new site.

By: dWj

dWj — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:30:24 +0000

I vote for keeping the counterparties posts that you do here, at least for a little while, most likely more narrowly curated, possibly with a link nudging us toward counterparties.com as well. Perhaps it would make sense to gradually put fewer and fewer links in the daily Reuters blogpost, with more and more insistent “more at counterparties.com” reminders.

By: AlanVanneman

AlanVanneman — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:14:55 +0000

Is this an ad? It sounds like one.

By: colinjnagy

colinjnagy — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:58:29 +0000

Super happy this is up and running!

By: GRRR

GRRR — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:35:36 +0000

That is an awesome and natural extension. Thanks, Felix, Ryan, and most of all, Reuters.