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Re: A worse blogging system

Matt Wilson — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:54:09 -0000

Yeah, I'll plan to check in on sux0r (great name, btw) and eventually
wade through the code to extract that bayesian part. I need my
startup to get acquired so I can spend more time on these interesting
side projects.

Matt

Re: A worse blogging system

conner_bw — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:36:42 -0000

Hey, I got hooked up with this url by you on kur05hin. I read the text a few times and it's on point.

I'm specifically interested in "tools to assemble a conversation thread from all the different pieces." Sites could assemble comments in a way that weighs them for "karma", optionally choosing to assemble comments by nepotism for all anyone cares. Let the site decide whatever they want.

Right now either people surf the web to whore links in a thin veil of participating in a community, or someone tries to build "the next big community" because they want to serve advertisements.

However, if conversations come to you this kind of behavior dies. This is where Baysian probability becomes interesting because it find stuff you are "probably" interested in, along side other weights like "i want to read what my friends are writing" and "anything with bacon" or whatever else.

I'm sure there are many other good reasons for this, with rationale much different that mine, but if you are serious with a penchant for "assembling content from various sources" and have practical solutions that could be done in PHP please keep sux0r in mind (hence me, here, shamelessly link whoring... like a snake eating it's tail I guess, but that's a good thing)

Thanks for reading.

Re: A worse blogging system

Matt Wilson — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:42:09 -0000

Thanks! I'll look in to that.

Re: A worse blogging system

Matt Wilson — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:41:10 -0000

Jeremiah,

The problem with that is that if the commenter does not agree with
whatever license the blogger chooses, then the comment never appears.
If the comments live on the commenter's server, then the commenter
doesn't have to agree to anything before commenting.

Re: A worse blogging system

Jeremiah — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:18:57 -0000

With regards to copyright issues with comments, what about a line stating that if they post, they agree to apply $COPYLEFT_LICENSE to their comment, with a link to the license? Creative Commons No Derivative seem appropriate for comments.

Re: A worse blogging system

beza1e1 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:28:50 -0000

Apart from the pub-sub stuff, you could just use ikiwiki.

You can run ikiwiki locally as well as online. There is no tool to provide "realtime preview", but it isn't hard to write a plugin or script to do this.