Blogoforum - blog+forum on blogoforum, forum and idea

RE: Email interface?

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:18:26 GMT

I agree with mamadrum, and I think this could be a very good replacement for listservs. However, I don't see how Blogoforum-like "groups" is relevant. Can you flesh that concept out a bit more? - 1 reply

RE: Email interface?

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:17:56 GMT

Hey mamadrum, thanks for cheering me up and for your suggestion. You are probably talking about something like Blogoforum being mailing list web interface and vice versa right? I'm re-organizing Blogoforum so people would be able to create their own Blogoforum-like "groups" here. Please let me know about your requirements. - 1 reply

Email interface?

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:45:06 GMT

This is a very nifty site and I'm thinking about whether it would be appropriate for a collection of online working groups. Some folks are just used to email and it would be interesting if one could subscribe and post to threads in some way. If there was a simple syntax that would allow an email-poster to add tags (say tag: on the first line) it would allow folks who work linearly to stay engaged. (One benefit email has is that you can read and send it while on a plane.) - 1 reply

RE: Get a Free Forum - Corrections & More Info

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:44:25 GMT

hi.how can i get a free forum in my blog? - 1 reply

RE: Get a Free Forum - Corrections & More Info

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:32:59 GMT

i am interested about subjects like dyspraxia - 1 reply

RE: Get a Free Forum - Corrections & More Info

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:20:59 GMT

wow - 1 reply

Get a Free Forum - Corrections & More Info

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:42:11 GMT

This article is a little bit outdated but on overall it is perfectly well. Just a small correction that for your blogoforum, use URL like blogoforum.com/tag/your_forum_name With Blogoforum inroduced keyword intersection, you can use multiple keywords in your forum's URLs like http://blogoforum.com/tag/java+swing Some sample forums here are http://blogoforum.com/tag/dotuseful - forum on dotuseful Java library ( http://dotuseful.sourceforge.net ) http://blogoforum.com/tag/java - Java topics http://blogoforum.com/tag/java+swing - topics on Swing http://blogoforum.com/tag/del.icio.us - forum on del.icio.us http://blogoforum.com/tag/ehub+emilychang - forum on Emily Chang's eHub - 1 reply

Who the hell is phillhow

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:43:32 GMT

My main interest is the delivery of technical support on the Internet. I will write mainly about that. The nature of "help" sites is changing from a very static Q and A format with users on one side and experts on the other; to a more dynamic distribution of information in well organized pieces that serve to educate rather than rather than just answer questions. Right now there are 5 main types of help sites: The contest or game style sites like Experts-exchange... Q and A taken to the extreme. These are on the decline in importance. Conventional forums like Codingforums. Not a popular as they once were, and many are badly run or neglected. Some will survive, but only as a reminder of how things were. Social news and discussion sites like Digg. These are very inconsistent in quality, and most like Digg fail to remain focused on the tech areas. They are sort of backward Q and A. Someone posts what they think might be an answer and the questions sort of find it through community voting. Right now these sites are the darlings of the geeks among us, but whether that is short term or long term is yet to be determined. Collections. Collections of related articles, collections of downloads, collections of snippets, directories of sites or blogs. Sometimes the answer to a problem, but without much support. There have always been collection, there will always be collections. They may evolve to support different types of collections like del.icio.us; evlove further or turning into something a little more organized and usable. Article and tutorial sites like Experts Round Table. The devlopment of permanent content generated from discussion, research and peer review looks like a good idea. It probably will not appeal to the Venture Capitalist, because it is the only current format where a small group of experts can compete with much bigger sites without needing advertising or big bucks; by generating a little buzz and making quality content available for free. Which reminds me to post http://www.expertsrt.com to give them a little buzz from here. I am going to be up front and tell you that I think Experts Round Table and other sites trying a similar approach sre the future of tech help on the Internet. I'm not going to post links to the big sites with wal to wall ads and paid subscriptions. The greed owners and their VC friends already make too much money. Over time I will be reviewing some of the help sites on the Internet with bias toward free sites, ad free sites, and sites that generate mostly original content. I will also comment on trends point out the good the bad and the ugly; and do everything I can to promote good article sites especially Experts Round table. BTW, if you think you would like to be a tech writer; instead of hiding your work on a blog, contact a tech article site. Then you will get support and help developing your article. I know my friend COBOLdinosaur at Experts round table would be glad to hear from you. See y'al later. ** If you need as answer ask anyone who calls thenselves an expert; I you want to learn find a teach, Mentor or guru. Experts only know the answer Mentors know why it is the answer. ** - 2 replies

Welcome, and one tip

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:19:33 GMT

Thats a great post Philhow. Welcome to Blogoforum. You came on the right time here. I'm brewing new ideas on how to let people to create their own communities here. If you're interested we can exchange a few words here or by email regarding how would you your community to work. Meanwhile here is one trick (undocumented) you can do. Navigate to a topic of your interest, say http://blogoforum.com/tag/review+site+support+technology+web . You will find "edit forum description" there at the top right. You can set title and description for that place. Try it. Denis Krukovsky Blogoforum - 1 reply

Blogoforum introduces Tag Hierarchy

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:59:54 GMT

After several days and nights of hard working, Blogoforum introduces new way to browse tagged info. Now you can browse the sea of tagged messages hierarchically. - 1 reply

Reading List and Authorities

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:23:53 GMT

Now you can "bookmark" messages you find interesting into your "reading list". If you found the message you think is interesting, important, or you just want to return to it later - add it to your "reading list". Moreover, your "reading list" contains "Authorities Cloud" of people you bookmarked most. Socialize!

Long Thread or Short Message

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:21:56 GMT

This point is interesting. I may change presentation algorithm in a future. But what I'm thinking about more is - discussion groups (tag groups) and message bookmarking. Actually Blogoforum can change presentation algo based on what messages are bookmarked. This is interesting. - 1 reply

RE: Edit and Long Thread Problem

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:16:31 GMT

I'll be the devil's advocate here, OK? :-) You can look at it as a matter of grouping messages. You can group messages into large groups -- long threads. Or you can make only short groups of 3-5 messages, just like now in Blogoforum. So you can have a relatively small number of large groups, or a large number of small groups. The benefit of having large groups is that a user once she has written a post in a thread, she can easily navigate back to the place of interest. Navigating means picking the right group of messages. It's easier to navigate in smaller amount of objects than in large amount. So getting back to a long thread is easier than getting back to a short thread. - 1 reply

Edit and Long Thread Problem

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:28:26 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion Jason! In the future, Blogoforum will let to edit the message and its attributes plus will keep change history. One of problems which Blogoforum is aimed to solve is long threads. Long thread is a problem: - people rarely read what's inside thread - while real knowledge or important and interesting messages can be hidden in the middle of a long thread and rarely who will find them - during the thread, actual thread subject may change several times, people end up speaking on other things but thread novice can't identify the change - because of possible subject change, an original poster may scream "Don't put offtopic onto my thread" - I can continue but I would better do some development However, a lot of conversations do have thread-like structure. That's why Blogoforum does some steps in this direction: http://blogoforum.com/tag/blogoforum+message+thread+tree/message-threads-on-blogoforum-1848.html - 1 reply

Forum Groups are in development - your opinion?

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:56:49 GMT

Hey Zef, Thanks for joining Blogoforum and for the post! I'm preparing new method for message organization. The idea in short is: let the user to describe a tag or a set of tags, naming it "group" or "forum", thus providing more advanced "get a forum" functionality. Then we can describe a forum on software and recognize a subforum on programming within it, then we can recognize and describe a forum on PHP within it. That's the way to go. I wrote this in a hurry working on actual implementation so the description is a bit chaotic but you have me here willing to answer questions. What do you think about it? - 1 reply

Trying out blogoforum

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:55:36 GMT

This looks quite nice, definitely the best tag-based forum I've seen so far. For some reason it still appears to me as a bit messy though, have to figure out what exactly it is that makes it look a bit messy. - 2 replies

RE: Vote System or Something More?

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:43:52 GMT

Happened again!!!! :-( What is the criteria for logging a user off this site? Is this session based? I wish it would remember me. - 1 reply

Vote System or Something More?

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:50:44 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion Podious! Blogoforum will definitely have some "interestingness" ratings in the future. However I would give it something more smart then simple up/down votes. It was Clay Shirky who warned us on "tyranny of the majority" at http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html - interesting read, and Mr. Shirky gives a good example of why it can be not so good. Here are some of my early thoughts on this - http://blogoforum.com/tag/community+forum+psychology/thoughts-on-online-communities-clay-shirky-a-group-is-its-own-worst-enemy-137.html - 2 replies

Moderation implementation

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:03:10 GMT

What would be nice is a forum that basically implemented Digg's comment moderation system. Thumbs down if you don't like the message, thumbs up if you do. Then, the user declares their threshold in their profile settings. - 2 replies

RE: Moderation implementation

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:44:21 GMT

Forgot to sign in. That post was mine. - 1 reply