Blogoforum - blog+forum on blogoforum and idea

RE: Blogoforum is looking for UI / Web Designer

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:55:33 GMT

william - 1 reply

RE: Blogoforum is looking for UI / Web Designer

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:54:45 GMT

Well, I think I can help. Look forward to a rewarding venture. Anyone have some sugestion on how the think blogoforum should work? Let me know, at. liarfish [at] gmail.com - 1 reply

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

Pulling in RSS feeds?

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:45:08 GMT

It's been a long time since I posted anything sensible anywhere. I guess this is the best place to start a fresh. Blogoforum has come a long way. The new look is kinda interesting, though I still have to get used to it. :) Somewhere in the recent past I stopped having conversations across the web. One of the primary reason for this was my shift to a career in media, specifically as a Radio Jockey in a local Radio Station here. One of the other reasons was I bought a domain and started my own blog - though, I don't post there too frequently either. :D The one problem that repeatedly comes back to me in all the trawls of the web, is the scattering of my conversations across the place. Comments, Blogs, Profiles, Identities, all of these exist in varied numbers and in various stages of lethargy. Haviung a centralised identity system is scary - at least, I perceive it that way. The other alternative, as I see it, would be to group individual elements in a unique place, while allowing the other identities to flourish as they are. I see that potential here at Blogoforum. To start with, for example, if I could simply pull my RSS feeds here, but at the same time keep a link back to my main blog so that people could return there to comment, it would render my existence so much simple. With most of the web 2.0 start-ups and players accepting XML as a universal 'language' maybe that could be a potential USP for Blogoforum. Maybe I am rambling, but maybe there's a gold mine in that idea. Anyone care to take that up? - 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

RE: Hi there

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:26:56 GMT

Sorry for the extremely delayed reply, Things were a whirlwind for me during the this year-transition. I ended up winning a local Radio Jockey hunt and joined the Radio station as a Trainee. At the same time I switched jobs and now I am working as Tech Writer for a company called Pure IT Usability Research. Somewhere around the same time, I acquired my own domain, 42 Quirks (http://42quirks.com) and keep posting to it pretty frequently. So things have been moving pretty fast for me, and I have barely had the time to catch my breath. What's Blogoforum up to these days? What are you up to these days? Regards, Shri. - 1 reply

Hi there

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:52:27 GMT

Hi Shrikant, while I work on implementing new features for Blogoforum, I am very pleased to see you here! What are you currently on? - 1 reply

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

Web2Newswire.com

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:16:37 GMT

Hello, I would like to introduce you to Web2Newswire.com. It is a new user driven social content site where you can submit news, stories about your websites, businesses, blogs, and startups or anything Web 2.0. This is a especially good for startups and websites with less exposure. It is equally good for well established sites and businesses. Web2newswire is a new way you can promote your site, businesses, blogs, and startups. You get more exposure without spending a dime! The more site members talk about your site, the more exposure you get. The service is 100% free. Please let me know if you have any questions and/or comments. I can be reached me at info@web2newswire.com. Please tell a friend today. Thank you for your time. Regards, Nicola Louise http://www.Web2Newswire.com "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn"

Blogoforum is looking for UI / Web Designer

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:17:25 GMT

Are you brilliant UI / Web designer with fresh sight on things? Are you enthusiastic about blogs, forums, information exchange, online discussions and publications? Do you believe forums have wide area for improvement and interested with ideas behind Blogoforum? Do you have your hands shaking about UI improvements and usability ideas popping inside your head? Join Blogoforum team then. Your earnings: - A link to your website will be placed at the bottom of Blogoforum pages - Blogoforum will share its profits with you. The profit may be lower then you expect if we'll do a bad job. It may be higher then you expect if we'll do good job. Since Blogoforum is looking for a person who is enthusiastic about its ideas, it is likely you think we'll do good. More is to be discussed via email. If you are familiar with JavaScript and may enhance Blogoforum with some dynamic hide/show sections - a plus for you. Our collaboration will be done remotely. Send me an email with links to your work to dkrukovsky at google mail. Denis Krukovsky author, Blogoforum - 3 replies

Digg Tagging?

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:17:35 GMT

The Mu Life author asked me to comment on his "The Role of Tags in Social Bookmarking" article. In the article, Muhammad talks about Digg requiring users to put stories into predefined categories, and suggests that tag-based categorization would work better. What can I say? As a big fan of tagging*, I completely agree! Here are few examples for you to though about. Let's suppose I have an article about say the design of new Mac OS. Or the article is about next-generation iPod design. What's the correct place of a story of such kind? There are at least three candidate categories, all are under "Technology": "Apple", "Design", and "Industry News", also probably "Software" for new OS story, and "Hardware" for a new gadget. I feel a bit lost. Why I am required to chose one category when my story is ok for three? Am I supposed to start a research on what the correct category is? When I'll make my choice, how about users who browse other categories and may miss my story? That's what the tagging is for. To get around these, let the user to tag the story as "apple", "technology", "design", "news", "software" or whatever. Give the user freedom to decide what categories to have and what information structure should be. I always missed tagging in Digg. Browsing its categories I saw stories on wide areas of subjects. While being interested in some particular topic (say "tagging") I didn't knew what category to look in. Should I browse all Industry News, Programming, and Software? del.icio.us, from the other side, has become my first starting point for a research on a particular topic. If I'm looking for must-have Firefox plugins I go to http://del.icio.us/popular/firefox , looking for startup partners advices I go to http://del.icio.us/popular/equity , and looking for digg-enabling a web site I go to - yes, http://del.icio.us/popular/digg . A few words to people who point on some limitations of tag-based categorization systems. Here on Blogoforum, I experiment with tags a lot. And hey, the system is a rich field for experiments. You can do a lot of tricks with tags. It was believed tag-based navigation is flat - I managed to introduce hierarchical tag browsing. Even more - using tags, the system can create a hierarchical categories-like information tree (see Forum Groups are in development for initial steps in this direction). Tag-based classification is very promising and an area open for innovations. * As you can see, I'm so big fan of tagging that I've developed a whole new tag-based website (called Blogoforum).

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