Comments on: Syndicate, syndicate, syndicate the semester away http://bavatuesdays.com/syndicate-syndicate-syndicate-the-semester-away/ a "b" blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:49:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Reverend http://bavatuesdays.com/syndicate-syndicate-syndicate-the-semester-away/comment-page-1/#comment-76176 Reverend Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:52:55 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=1689#comment-76176 Steve,This sounds interesting, what do you mean exactly by changing post organizations to latest comments? What I always thought would be useful (and the plugin/application for WordPress does this) is creates a link from a post to a forum. The post is reproduced in the forum, and you can treat the idea as a forum thread. The user publishing the post should be able to decide whether they want the post to be a thread. In this way, they can keep all their writings central in their blog, and leave the discussion to the forum. But why not let the discussion happen in a distributed manner on the blogs? Well, that takes getting used to for folks who don;t use blogs, but the ability to control your own space is empowering. Yet, an issue that constantly plagues bloggers and commentators is th ability to control and archive comments you make on other people's blog. There is still no way to republish your comments back to your blog without copy and paste, and many of these comments may be something you want ot preserve. Co-comment tried this, but it isn't pretty. The ability to comment on other folks work, while preserving a copy of your comment with a link to its context would be a key element on such an environment. It's not always the integration of these apps that is top priority, but the ability to get their info out should they want. I record of their thinking that they can take with them. That is the key in my mind, but I am often wrong :) Steve,This sounds interesting, what do you mean exactly by changing post organizations to latest comments? What I always thought would be useful (and the plugin/application for WordPress does this) is creates a link from a post to a forum. The post is reproduced in the forum, and you can treat the idea as a forum thread. The user publishing the post should be able to decide whether they want the post to be a thread. In this way, they can keep all their writings central in their blog, and leave the discussion to the forum. But why not let the discussion happen in a distributed manner on the blogs? Well, that takes getting used to for folks who don;t use blogs, but the ability to control your own space is empowering. Yet, an issue that constantly plagues bloggers and commentators is th ability to control and archive comments you make on other people’s blog. There is still no way to republish your comments back to your blog without copy and paste, and many of these comments may be something you want ot preserve. Co-comment tried this, but it isn’t pretty. The ability to comment on other folks work, while preserving a copy of your comment with a link to its context would be a key element on such an environment.

It’s not always the integration of these apps that is top priority, but the ability to get their info out should they want. I record of their thinking that they can take with them. That is the key in my mind, but I am often wrong :)

]]> By: Steven Egan http://bavatuesdays.com/syndicate-syndicate-syndicate-the-semester-away/comment-page-1/#comment-76173 Steven Egan Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:28:20 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=1689#comment-76173 I've been thinking about how it would be possible to create wiki, forum and blog functionality done through all three of the technologies. With the feed abilities described it might be possible to create the equivalent of a forum with blog posts and comments working like forum threads. The difference is changing the post organization to latest comment. I’ve been thinking about how it would be possible to create wiki, forum and blog functionality done through all three of the technologies.

With the feed abilities described it might be possible to create the equivalent of a forum with blog posts and comments working like forum threads. The difference is changing the post organization to latest comment.

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