The future of online community
Jeremy Allaire's Radio -> Udell: The future of online community -> The future of online community
............. Anyway, Jon asks some important questions, such as how/whether we can add a deeper form of community and persistent dialog than comments and trackbacks. I've thought about this some, and seem various experiments. One thing I think would be interesting would be to deepen the comment systems into richer threading systems, and expand the range of content to include text/audio/video. I'd also like to see standards for integrating presence and live discussion into weblogs. If a weblog is a reflection of a person's intellectual presence online, they should be able to make themselves available for 1:1 or 1:many interactions, including live audio and video. Mike Chambers from Macromedia played with this for a while on his Flash MX blog using Flash Communication Server.
Nonetheless, it would be useful for us all to step back and imagine the forms of community and interaction we'd like to see grow from weblogs, and start crafting some of that into standards. [Jeremy Allaire's Radio]
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