Comments on: an open-source “craigslist” for bloggers

By: anonymous coward

anonymous coward — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:41:26 +0000

not to be unduly contrarian, or to troll, but I would be surprised if all of you were to re-read this post in say 5 years, and not be embarassed by the odd insularity and myopia expressed here. This will go nowhere. It’s silly. I can not wait for everyone to get over the blogosphere. Can’t happen fast enough; but it will happen.

By: Alan Gutierrez

Alan Gutierrez — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:24:32 +0000

Hugh
I’m going to try to use this to move to Chicago. Thanks.

By: WandD Uncensored

WandD Uncensored — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 04:26:08 +0000

List of designers

I think this is a great idea — we offer very business-focussed web solutions — aiming at particular business aims such as increasing revenue or lowering costs. I hope some people take the time to check out our site at http://www.wandd.net/ as a result.

By: Alan Gutierrez

Alan Gutierrez — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 03:50:49 +0000

Peter — I think a proper system is only a few quick hacks away though. I’ve discussed the need for more blog entry routing tools. Making the forward button available to the blogsphere, so that you have have a combination of publish/subscribe, and send.

By: Dawn (aka Pink Lady)

Dawn (aka Pink Lady) — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 02:39:00 +0000

I love it. I am truly hooked on blogging and couldn’t think of a better way to make a living than being totally creative all day. I currently work as a trainer for a small software company. Its a great job, but my creative juices are somewhat restricted.

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:34:32 +0000

Alan, you are right. Clearly most people would need a proper system to enable the social contract to work. I was coming from a theoretical direction and a “bloggers only” one. del.icio.us is already very popular in the blogosphere, and such an idea could work if everyone knew what the tags were A radical idea, but I’ve found radical ideas often lead to less radical, but more profitable, ones

By: Alan Gutierrez

Alan Gutierrez — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:57:18 +0000

In any case, I’d like to see something like this used to assemble software. Use Sig’s objects and workflow to assemble components, the long tail is used to find the components missing from the workflow.

By: sMhyla

sMhyla — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:19:08 +0000

I'm still a bit of a "blogger-virgin", if you will. First, I found your paper about "How to Be Creative" through beedigital.net/blog, loved it. I'm also very interested in the wiki pages you mentioned, so I'll try it out soon. Of course, I will be quoting you on my own personal blog. Lastly, I wish I could be paid for blogging, something I'm passionate about (more of a blogaholic really). Thanks for sharing.

By: Face2Face Meetingsnet

Face2Face Meetingsnet — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:21:33 +0000

For my fellow blogger readers If you don't care about blogging, skip this one. If you do, check out what Hugh Macleod's been up to: He's created The HughPage, a sort of Craigslist for bloggers. If this gets traction, it'll be amazing. We'll see if Rich beats me to creating a Meetin...

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:09:45 +0000

Thank you Hugh, for this gift to all us small bloggers out there. When this really gets going, it will open up a whole new world of possibility for those of us in the blogosphere.
You are a genius!

By: Alan Gutierrez

Alan Gutierrez — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:46:27 +0000

Peter
Cool blog. You’re a Ruby on Rails developer I see.
I think you can cobble together some things with tagging, but I think it is a matter of the user interface and data presentation.

By: Emily Mann

Emily Mann — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:45:34 +0000

wowzers! AWESOME idea Hugh! Can’t wait to see what comes of it!

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:52:54 +0000

You know, it can be even simpler than all that. Use del.icio.us. I posited using del.icio.us as a dating service several months ago. What you’d do is create your post looking for a job, a girlfriend, a toaster.. whatever.. then post it to del.icio.us with a certain tag, like “suchandsuch-wanted” .. then people would subscribe to the relevant RSS feed. del.icio.us makes such a great central repository of many-to-many links, that it seems a waste not to use it to its full extent.. and, well.. tagging is hot.

By: Alan Gutierrez

Alan Gutierrez — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:58:51 +0000

Hugh
In the software I’m designing this has two parts. First, the blogger initiates a conversation. Say, Moving to Chicago. Then any posts about moving to Chicago are aggregated under the title of that conversation, and a feed is created.
Then their is static information attached to it. Tags, if you will, or other formats that can be exchanged, like resumes, job requirements, locations, and whatnot.
This last part can be free form, like a wiki entry, or it can evolve into new meta-data formats. ApartmentML, JobML, RomanceML.
It is important, I think that the entries get packaged, in their own feed, since I’m not going to spend the rest of my life blogging about going to Chicago. The conversation about Chicago might interest people who find my prattling about XML and software boring.
And I’d like to feed my conversation into existing conversations. Something like USENET, but groups form and dissolve as people address and resolve problems.

By: €irePreneur

€irePreneur — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:44:19 +0000

A Craigslist for bloggers? Don’t think so

Doc Searls points to an idea that cartoonist extraordinaire Hugh MacLeod calls an Open-Source Craiglist for Bloggers. The problems is its based on a Wiki architecture. Now I’m a compulsive sampler of new web technologies but I’ve never yet created