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Dave, thanks for this excellent frassle design mockup.

My favorite things in this design are the line-art icons for the different views and actions. They will help the viewer (especially the first-time viewer) get a feeling for what these other views are useful for quickly.

One thing I'd like to give higher billing in frassle is the aggregator. It is an important feature of frassle that you can look at someone else's aggregator. Of course, right now the aggregator is so hard to use that almost nobody actually uses it for reading. I am working on this.

Another confusing aspect of this design is that the current category appears above the weblog title. Since you're browsing categories within a weblog, this seems counterintuitive; at first glance one might think the weblog itself belongs in the category. Additionally, the editing actions appear above the category bar. Since these are special actions that you can only do to your own weblog, I think it makes sense to differentiate them somehow, but I'm not sure how. Perhaps they could show up listed vertically in the right column, in a subtly highlighted box with a title like "editing actions". Note that because there are lots of ways to introduce these functions on an as-needed basis—for example, you can add categories on the fly when you're categorizing a post—these editing actions are rarely used from this interface anyway.

By the way, I like the right column, and would like to put a blogroll there. However, this particular question brings to the forefront another issue: the distinction between frassle as backend and the frassle publisher. Currently, there is one interface that serves both the authors and the readers. The upcoming publisher forks off one of these audiences, allowing any frassle user to construct a view of any information in frassle.

To support this distinction, I am inclined not to make the "recent posts" page more personalized. The frassle-as-a-user-facing-application stuff should be there and should be optimized for people with frassle accounts. The publisher should help these users publish material in a format optimized for a particular reading audience. I don't want to tread further into the territory of one frassle application straddling the needs of these different audiences.

A few more nits to pick: I'm not a fan of the subdued orangish-greenish-and-blue color scheme. I think it's weird the way the orange category bar cuts off above the rightmost column. The use of different fonts for your weblog | aggregrator | publisher links and home | status is odd.