Comments on: RustyBudget: Multi-Author Blog Management

By: Recommended Reading for 3rd July through 24th July

Recommended Reading for 3rd July through 24th July — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:25:17 +0000

[...] RustyBudget: Multi-Author Blog Management - Bridging the gap between blogging and professional multi-author management, this looks like a must-have tool for blogging teams. [...]

By: Rhea Drysdale

Rhea Drysdale — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:37:54 +0000

I like the concept, but there are a few usability issues when it comes to setting everything up. Folder management and user access is slightly confusing about what to do. It took a few minutes to figure it out, but if you’re a master blogger the tool is worth hanging in there… by the time you’ve figured it out you’ll be the one setting the accounts up for contributing authors anyways.

Specific comments…
- Because I’m weird… “add” and “update” don’t have the same design as the “cancel” button, which causes some friction when I want to cancel, but the button is faded… this makes me think I can’t click on it.
- The notes button isn’t working for me.
- Bookmarklet feature is still a little confusing and giving me a cyclic behavior.
- I’m getting a “1.” when I try to re-order topics. Goes away when I add a new topic and shows up again when I move the topic from one budget to another. Not sure what this does besides confuse me.
- Notes functionality working now… not sure I like the only options being “add” or “cancel” because once I’ve added a note, I just want to close without “cancelling”. Wording is a little weird.
- Also, would like to be able to resize and move notes box.
- Not sure “reject” is the right word when you’re basically deleting the topic for good. “complete” also makes me think I am finishing the topic, but it’s getting scratched off, not tossed completely.
- “CLR” is also confusing… I think this means clear the list, when the options are complete or reject all.

Great start… interested in seeing how it develops!

By: Patrick Sexton

Patrick Sexton — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:18:33 +0000

Impressive Barry :0)

I see the reasoning for this, and I see some additional uses for it as well, there does seem to be a learning curve to it, but great looking tool and very very interesting to me and one of my projects.

Thanks Techcunch, for putting this out.

By: BlogPro Automotive

BlogPro Automotive — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:32:28 +0000

Seems to be an awful lot of critique on visual design on this tool. One of the things keeping me from pushing harder with my product is not knowing the authorship industry. I have a lot of projects in play and could use contributors, but managing that makes me nervous. A tool like this is designed for that. Who cares how visually stimulating it is. All they need is the ability to slap skins on the app and they will be cooking. Cool beans.- Ryan G

By: Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:45:50 +0000

Looks like a great tool…just not too sure about the name, as the word ‘rusty’ sort of implies that it’s deficient, impaired, neglected, sluggish, stale, unqualified, or weak…which I’m sure is not the case.

Definitely will check it out, though.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:55:15 +0000

Pretty sweet….And Schwartz’s good reputation doesn’t hurt a bit.

By: Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:42:18 +0000

Looks like a cool tool, I don’t have other people blogging for me yet but I’ll keep it in mind (I hope they sort the colors out a little though).

Nice idea rusty!

By: Rb

Rb — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:46:49 +0000

seems weak

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:39:38 +0000

You can also change the colors for the buckets in the backend. It’s all a matter of personal preference, really.

By: Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:33:08 +0000

Thanks Duncan for posting this.

Yes, the colors and the concept are a bit off.

We will be building out an API so that this technology can be implemented on your side.

This is software for serious bloggers and news sites.

Would love any feature requests and issues you find to be reported here. I will keep watching this blog post.

Thanks,

Barry

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:53:20 +0000

I can’t see any use from this product. The website blows, and their explanation of what it is and how it works is so convoluted, no one is going to be able to even figure out what this thing does.

By: MA

MA — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:58:00 +0000

This would be useful to a select few. I am not sure how mainstream this application could be as the need just is not there but I’m sure this would help out more than just a few people in the day to day management.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:43:14 +0000

I’ll argee with some of the commenters, the color scheme wasn’t me either, but you can’t win them all, and mission brown aside it’s a real handy tool.

By: David Krug

David Krug — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:41:09 +0000

This actually looks like a really cool tool. I signed up lets’ see if I use it in a week.

By: political forum

political forum — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:11:00 +0000

This sounds like something that could be very interesting to blog owners. It’s very hard to provide content day after day on a blog. Blog owners might also want to let some of their users provide content, rather than just letting them reply to content all the time. This sounds very useful.

tom

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:28:16 +0000

The wood paneling on the website’s header reminds me of that national lampoons movie where Chevy chase buys that station wagon with the green trim and wood paneling.

By: whoopee

whoopee — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:16:51 +0000

75% of people doing anything “online” need to leave the industry. this site is in this 75%, well within in

until the global population reach 60 billion or we move to a forty-nine hour day, no one has time for this shit

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:14:44 +0000

Sounds like a useful tool for bloggers, but damn, the poopy color scheme along with the “rusty” motif is hard to take seriously.

By: homer

homer — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:37:49 +0000

RustyBudget.com is avail: http://tinyurl.com/23te37

By: dubó

dubó — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:26:01 +0000

the second link is broken

By: Zee

Zee — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:53:10 +0000

Surely there’s something better than this out there…