The Blogsphere is becoming a huge distributed discussion forum
What makes a blog a communication tool? It is the fact that blogs are published over the Internet. However, what makes blogs a possible communication tool between two people? It is the posts aggregator and search engines like Technorati.
How it works? Technorati give you the possibility to create a feed where all items are the blogs' posts that link back to a specific URL. By example, here is the feed created by Technorati for the URL http://radio.weblogs.com/0140770/. Then, when someone on the blogsphere is blogging about something I wrote, and link back to my blog, I am immediately notified.
Sometimes, bloggers answer to a question or to a specific post by posting a post on their own blog. The only way to be notified that someone is talking about something you wrote is by using such services. It is also why linking is so important in blog posts: it enables people to follow discussions.
I think that eventually we will be able to talk about the Blogsphere as a: distributed discussion forums.
- The forums. The forums would be the Blogsphere in itself.
- A forum. A forum would be composed of the blogs sharing the same topic.
- The topic. The forum's topic would be the blog subjects.
- The threads. The threads would be the bloggers' posts.
- The messages. The messages would be the comments wrote by the readers.
The whole Blogsphere is slowly developing itself as this. I can only hope that it will continue in this direction. We now have the technologies to archive this goal and to build such a network.
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