Categories, Community, Collective and Individual Voice
In a work avoidance moment (dear reader, have you detected a theme from the blog-crazed woman?) I was cruising Scoble's blog and was pointed here: Community Blogs should be categorized. What was cool was not just the sensible suggestion in the post, but the diverse points of view in the comments. Harking back to my themes of individual/collective identity and experience, there were some great gems:
Darren writes: Perhaps community blogs could expose “Global” categories and bloggers could choose to optionally post entries to them. This way I could subscribe to a community's feed for Exchange Server, Recruiting, Security or whatever, or I could subscribe to the sitewide feed or to individual bloggers feeds."
This might also be a group forming thing around common areas of interest. Group experience.
James Avery then comments: "I think the problem is that with too many categories, and category specific feeds, you start to lose the personal aspect of it all. The main feed of weblogs.asp.net has the same problem, which is why I don't subscribe to it anymore. When I read a weblog I am usually interested in the person and what they have to say, whatever it happens to be about... for category specific stuff I usually just go hit up feedster or google. "
So, this leads us back to individual - context, identity, etc. (She mutters to herself, bridge, bridges...)
Back to work. I have to get all the resource materials for my presentation at eMerge2004 (Based in S. Africa/held online) done before I leave for the Netherlands. Am happy that both the presentations for that trip are MOSTLY done. Collaborating with 3 and 4 people is mind bendingly wonderful, but a huge time sink!
posted by Nancy White at 3:40 PM
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Not only community blogs, but others have recognized this need. Thus:
The Internet Topic Exchange see:
http://topicexchange.com/
"The Internet Topic Exchange hosts topic channels, public archives of weblog posts on defined topics."
If your blog is TrackBack-enabled you ping the URL on the topic page. Also, in MT for example- you can target specific topics to ping a certain URL. therefore making topic exchange and the RSS feeds very valuable.
- Heather from nearlythere.com
Heather, I was about to write just that!
If you're intrigued and want more detail on the ITE you can have a look at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~paquetse/publications/PaquetS_TopicSharingInfrastructure-2004.pdf
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