On Blogging, Splitting and Merging
I have moved a post from another blog into this one. I'm in the process of moving blog entries from other blogs into this one, so if you're poking around in my old posts and you see something familiar, I probably moved it in from that other blog.
One of the drawbacks of posting on more than one blog is that you sometimes end up thinking that a post you did under one banner actually belongs under another.
I wrote a comment on another blog, in another place, where I expressed my ideal vision of the blogosphere. I'm going to reprint it here -- editorial changes in [brackets].
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I came [to this blog] with a couple of blogs already in process. Cross-posting is set up [by many blog sites], but [this blog] apparently doesn't provide any special tools; you have to cut-and-paste your post from your other blogs to [this blog]
As someone who has worked with data-miners, I know it's quite feasible to have multiple displays of your [data] in different views. The ultimate blogsite would allow you to view your multiple threads in different ways -- chronologically as usual but also by thread subject. Creating thread structures should allow you to merge your blog and its comments into a forum index at a separate web site, managed by a separate entity.
Thus you could have your master blog, which is in the chronological order you wrote it in, and which establishes your intellectual ownership. But you could flag certain posts that, for instance, rant about your town's lack of interest in making life easier for bicycle commuters. Then that post would show up on the bike-oriented site that gathers links from associated bloggers, runs data tools and organizes them by threads. If you made friends there you could give them the key to read your larger journal or some subset of it.
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The key would be to give you complete control over where and how you want to publish a post. Now, I'm thinking perhaps that master database of all your work might actually be on your own hard drive.
The advantage of this kind of blog-management is that you always know you have an appreciative audience. If, for example, you are posting about what you're eating every day, you'll bore most people, but if you're publishing those posts as journal entries on your dieting web site, you might find an interested and sympathetic audience.
It kind of blurs the boundaries between forums and blogs. It would allow you to "wear many hats" as a blogger, depending on your interests.
These are tools that could be built today. Figuring out the business model would be the first step, but it wouldn't take long to enable people to do this.
You heard it here first.
Maybe. If the idea's already out there, someone point me to it.
Okay, it probably already is out there: in the minds of people who do "social networking development" for companies like Yahoo! and Google. In fact, a lot of what Google is doing looks tantalizingly like what I'm advocating.
Come to think of it, maybe I should check and see if Yahoo! or Google are hiring any social network developers.
One of the drawbacks of posting on more than one blog is that you sometimes end up thinking that a post you did under one banner actually belongs under another.
I wrote a comment on another blog, in another place, where I expressed my ideal vision of the blogosphere. I'm going to reprint it here -- editorial changes in [brackets].
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I came [to this blog] with a couple of blogs already in process. Cross-posting is set up [by many blog sites], but [this blog] apparently doesn't provide any special tools; you have to cut-and-paste your post from your other blogs to [this blog]
As someone who has worked with data-miners, I know it's quite feasible to have multiple displays of your [data] in different views. The ultimate blogsite would allow you to view your multiple threads in different ways -- chronologically as usual but also by thread subject. Creating thread structures should allow you to merge your blog and its comments into a forum index at a separate web site, managed by a separate entity.
Thus you could have your master blog, which is in the chronological order you wrote it in, and which establishes your intellectual ownership. But you could flag certain posts that, for instance, rant about your town's lack of interest in making life easier for bicycle commuters. Then that post would show up on the bike-oriented site that gathers links from associated bloggers, runs data tools and organizes them by threads. If you made friends there you could give them the key to read your larger journal or some subset of it.
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The key would be to give you complete control over where and how you want to publish a post. Now, I'm thinking perhaps that master database of all your work might actually be on your own hard drive.
The advantage of this kind of blog-management is that you always know you have an appreciative audience. If, for example, you are posting about what you're eating every day, you'll bore most people, but if you're publishing those posts as journal entries on your dieting web site, you might find an interested and sympathetic audience.
It kind of blurs the boundaries between forums and blogs. It would allow you to "wear many hats" as a blogger, depending on your interests.
These are tools that could be built today. Figuring out the business model would be the first step, but it wouldn't take long to enable people to do this.
You heard it here first.
Maybe. If the idea's already out there, someone point me to it.
Okay, it probably already is out there: in the minds of people who do "social networking development" for companies like Yahoo! and Google. In fact, a lot of what Google is doing looks tantalizingly like what I'm advocating.
Come to think of it, maybe I should check and see if Yahoo! or Google are hiring any social network developers.
2 Comments:
Hey, Google would be a great company to work for! Oy vey, brilliant ideas, moi frey!
Yeah, I thought about that. Trouble is, I'd have to stay here!
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