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Sep. 12th, 2004
Blogging about Blogging.
Sep. 12th, 2004 02:12 pmSo, I've been thinking about things that LiveJournal needs in order to give a more fulfilling and rewarding blogging experience, or something like that.
I already mentioned a bunch of stuff in my journal here and here but mostly here (friends only) but I've had some new ideas:
I was thinking about a few simple additions, like a way to cross index old journals. Often when reading someone's past journal, they've referred to 'current events' in someone else's journal, but finding what was current in a third party's journal when a particular post was written is not easy. That could be fixed.
I've also been thinking about the whole 'Memories' thing, and how its just not a good indexing system. That could be fixed too.
Then I had a really good idea. From time to time I've had friends, friends, and friends (to point out just a few) who's blogs are NOT on livejournal, and which I don't often read because it isn't as convenient as I would like. Obviously what the world needs is a metablog that allows you to seamlessly integrate comments and journal entries from all and sundry, even if the blogs themselves are hosted in separate locations. What with the advent of RSS and ATOM, I don't think this would even be too hard to do.
While you were at it, you could host native journals (so it would be a blog AND a metablog) and you could publish a standard interblog interface so anyone who wanted to could write an already-compatible blog. Since no one will bother at first, you'll have to write a dozen screen-scrapers and RSS digesters to handle all of the various interfaces you'll have to connect to, but I bet the results would be poplular...
... And now I see its time to head to IKEA. Ciao
I already mentioned a bunch of stuff in my journal here and here but mostly here (friends only) but I've had some new ideas:
I was thinking about a few simple additions, like a way to cross index old journals. Often when reading someone's past journal, they've referred to 'current events' in someone else's journal, but finding what was current in a third party's journal when a particular post was written is not easy. That could be fixed.
I've also been thinking about the whole 'Memories' thing, and how its just not a good indexing system. That could be fixed too.
Then I had a really good idea. From time to time I've had friends, friends, and friends (to point out just a few) who's blogs are NOT on livejournal, and which I don't often read because it isn't as convenient as I would like. Obviously what the world needs is a metablog that allows you to seamlessly integrate comments and journal entries from all and sundry, even if the blogs themselves are hosted in separate locations. What with the advent of RSS and ATOM, I don't think this would even be too hard to do.
While you were at it, you could host native journals (so it would be a blog AND a metablog) and you could publish a standard interblog interface so anyone who wanted to could write an already-compatible blog. Since no one will bother at first, you'll have to write a dozen screen-scrapers and RSS digesters to handle all of the various interfaces you'll have to connect to, but I bet the results would be poplular...
... And now I see its time to head to IKEA. Ciao