Buzz items all look identical or nearly the same via RSS

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

Visit a sample feed and/or load it in an RSS reader:

http://buzz.googleapis.com/feeds/111441278602865212925/public/posted

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

In the sample feed, every feed item is titled identically: "Buzz by Josh
Braun from Buzz".  Since many RSS readers display feeds as a list of
expandable titles, there is nothing to differentiate one feed item from
another while the body text of items is collapsed.

Similarly, every RSS feed from Buzz, regardless of who it is from, is
titled "Google Buzz", with nothing to indicate which user it is from.  If a
person follows multiple Buzz feeds in an RSS client, there will be nothing
to differentiate one feed from the other, since they are all titled the same.

Using the first 100 or so characters of the Buzz post's body text as a feed
item title would allow users to differentiate between posts in an RSS
reader and to get an idea of the topic of a post.  Including the name of
the user in the title of the RSS feed (e.g., Josh Braun's Google Buzz)
would allow users of RSS clients to differentiate between feeds.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

I'm using the publicly available version of Buzz, with several different
RSS clients.

Please provide any additional information below.

These issues are also discussed here on Buzz:
http://www.google.com/buzz/Joshua.A.Braun/7vXQjLXW9rP/I-just-subscribed-to-my-Go
ogle-Buzz-RSS-feed-in

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Joshua.A...@gmail.com on 15 May 2010 at 11:56

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Take a look at the new-style feed: 
https://www.googleapis.com/buzz/v1/activities/111441278602865212925/@public

It has a different title for every post.

Does this fix the problem you've identified.

Original comment by adewale on 17 Jun 2010 at 10:36

• Changed state: Accepted

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Looks terrific!  Yes it does fix the problem for specific feed items.  I can 
now find what I'm looking for when I go to click on a specific item.

The other part of the issue remains unresolved, however: Would there be any way 
to make the feed title specific to the user?  Right now the feed is titled 
"Google Buzz Public Feed," which is fine—except if I subscribe to feeds by 
different users, it'd be difficult to tell which one was which by their title.

Thanks SO much for working on this. I really appreciate it.

Original comment by Joshua.A...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2010 at 11:27

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I came up with the idea this morning to change the RSS feed titles for Buzz 
posts in Google Reader: http://goo.gl/AJeX

From: Google Buzz Public Feed for Andrew Maxwell 
To: Andrew Maxwell - Google Buzz Public Feed 
or 
To: Andrew Maxwell's Google Buzz Public Feed 

The name is more important than "Google Buzz Public Feed". 

This is something that Joshua and I have talked about before.

Original comment by amaxwel...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2010 at 12:11