Saturday, April 17th, 2004 — 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Lisa Williams, discussion leader
- Lisa: Developers work in the dark
- A couple of answers to Lisa’s first question: “Why do you blog?”
- “I’m a poser, I don’t blog”
- Dan Bricklin: Likes the feedback, does it for business reasons, express himself, connect with people
- Some discussion about categories — someone remarked that they wish categories could have subcategories [ Blogware does this! — Joey ]
- Comments discussion
- Does any one have problems with comments? Technical or people?
- Jeff Jarvis has “rules of engagement” (which appear in the sidebar of his blog)
- Lisa has her own set of rules, including the Living Room Doctrine for comments (which appears in this post).
- Losing posts in web-based blogging tools
- “Use Control-A Control-C!”
- Wishlist
- A service that let you republish someone else’s RSS onto your site
- A blogging tool for note-taking
- Different kinds of entries with different features, depending on the entry type: journal, link, opinion, response, etc.
- Threaded comments which allowed you to respond to other comments rather than just the article [ Blogware has this! — Joey ]
- Would like to Subscribe to a comments thread [ Blogware will have this! — Joey ]
- Would like to be able to draw pictures
- Text-to-speech blog: would like to be able to listen to blog while driving or working on other things
- Better support for audioblogging
- Better support for videoblogging
- Better support for accessibility
- A way to migrate a comment to the level of a post
- Some way to automatically blog my comments made on other people’s blogs — maybe in a sideblog
- Ability to ignore a specific commenter
- Jeff Sandquist: Different people want to converse differently — comments / discussion group / chat etc
