Caltrops - Links 2003





	[quote name="Lufteufel"][quote name="Hokie Mokie, the King of Jazz"][quote name="Lufteufel"]Running a weblog with articles, forums, and user registrations takes a hell of a lot more technology than a few HTML <form> tags. [/quote] Here's a free jargon lesson on that whole Web Logging craze the kids are so into these days, just in case you ever start dating a 19 year old -- weblogs don't have "articles" or "forums." I know that your "Everything I Need to Know About Community I Learned on Usenet" approach means that taking a look at anything that's happened since 1993 probably seems beneath you, but the early weblogs were simpler than Geocities, both on the surface (a simple HTML form, despite your unsupported assertion that more was required) with flat files under the hood. The head shift was from static to time-ordered content -- the technology was the same. And the head took a surprisingly long time to shift. ;hm[/quote] You may not need a database to have individual, disconnected weblogs existing in a collaborative vaccuum, but you do need all kinds of db-driven infrastructure all over the place to have something that resembles a community. Instant messages, reader comments, web forums, email updates, reviews, ratings, indicies, polls, emoticons, RSS feeds, and all that fancy community-enabling stuff that orbits the blogosphere is what makes the whole experience so attractive now. You seem to think that all these tools are showing up now because so many people have discovered blogging. I suggest that you have it entirely backwards--cheap, ubiquitous collaborative tools encouraged more and more people to get into blogging.[/quote]