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Saturday, June 14, 2003 |
Improving model of comments for supporting real discussions in weblogs Wow - this post fell into my news aggregator seconds after my rant on the Radio comments feature ! Hope the guys at Radio are listening. Thanks Marc! JournURL. JournURL: More BBS/Blog Fusion. Another entry in the fusion of the BBS and Blog patterns, JournURL, an attempt to create a CCMS (that'd be Community Content Management System to you and me.) The focus here is improving on the model of simple comments for supporting real discussions in weblogs: "Robust threaded and linear discussion that encourages extended conversations and debate. No simplistic comment system here, folks. No anonymous spam." JournURL recently launched a way to use its comments system from 3rd party blogging tools: As I've said in the past, blog comment systems generally suck. They're fine for "me too" responses and the occasional one-liner, but they quickly show their limitations when put to the task of managing large, intense discussions. ... Meanwhile, here I am, sitting on what is probably the most robust, blog-friendly discussion app anywhere, and all of those people out there using Movable Type and similar apps can't take advantage of it. ... I've decided to see what I can do to make this thing more useful to people using "foreign" blogging apps. Enter ping2talk. ... Roger Benningfield has appeared on the ThreadsML list and showed us all his JournURL. I wonder if he knows that Steve Yost is about to unveil QucikTopic Pro -with QuickThread - the first implementation of ThreadsML? JournURL would be cool to be teh second product to support ThreadsML. Then we could...... [Marc's Voice]1:25:52 PM ![]() |
Radio Comments Feature The comments feature on Radio really needs some doing up. Adding trackback is altogether another thing - i can't wait for that to happen. My cribs :
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