Comments on: “open source blogging”: readers’ link page

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:16:51 +0000

Why dumbest idea ever?

By: Evelyn Rodriguez

Evelyn Rodriguez — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 05:47:09 +0000

I was just about to chime in with Peter Caputa’s idea. It’s simpler for folks like me already tagging their links with del.icio.us.
Kevin Sites, now Yahoo! fame, has 3 folks back home helping him with research & editing while he’s on road blogging. Now I don’t have that staff, nor sounds like it you. But it’s more bloggy, opensourcey to ask my global factcheckers, researchers, editors (ha!!) to be my eyes & ears online for the tsunami anniversary live-blogging tour. Basically tag anything they read that may be revelant and I should take a peek at and weave into post with tsunami2005.
A few years back instead of hiring translators for Google’s website, they threw it out to their users and had a worldwide (volunteer) corp of translators. They fact-check each other by rating how “good” the translation is and the best one is used.

By: Dave Wheeler

Dave Wheeler — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:26:46 +0000

Hugh,
It sounds like you are in the classic situation of the small entrepreneur whose business is growing to the point that he can’t do everything personally. I know it will be considered blasphemy in the blogsphere, but what about getting some help? Perhaps a multi-layered blog where you serve as editor? The wiki idea is a good one, but I don’t think your readers will get the same “Hugh-experience” as your blog.
Just some thoughts …
Dave Wheeler

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 07:15:06 +0000

Funny, I just clicked through your feed to make the same suggestion Pete made. Or something similar.

By: pete caputa

pete caputa — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 23:13:39 +0000

I suggest that you syndicate a feed from del.icio.us and ask people to tag their bookmarks with the tag, “for:hughmcleod”. If you want to edit it to avoid spam and self-promotion, you could ask people to do that. Then, read through them. If it is worthy, you could tag it with “publicgapingvoid” and then syndicate the feed for the tag “/yourusername/publicgapingvoid”.
This may sound harder to a non del.icio.us user. But, there are a lot of del.icio.us users with this habit already.

By: pheloxi

pheloxi — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 21:07:10 +0000

ahum!
…sunday is the 4th of December!
it could start a new ne(a)t idea:
only alowed to e-mail, when cyberspace is hybernating*.
* cyberspace’s version of “when hell freezes over”.