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JC Francois (40)
I fell into computing and networking when I was a little boy
I work in business development for an IT company
I am a firm believer in openness: open standards and open business models
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Something's in the air
JC — January 5, 2005 - 18:24
I'm trying to participate in some blog conversations going on in the blogosphere, and basically it can't be done. This "global conversation" seems poorly designed.
Comments and trackbacks supposedly turn one-way blogging into a conversation, but it doesn't seem to me that it works very well. People post comments, but does anybody read the comments? Most bloggers seem to have trackbacks turned off.
Ref: Geek CEO: Trackbacks/Comments are lame
The idea that there's no good tool to support a real conversation between bloggers or between bloggers and their readers is picking up quite some speed in the blogosphere.
OverHear
Lion Kimbro (not verified) — January 8, 2005 - 03:54You may be interested in a system called OverHear. It's better explained in ConversationField.
It unifies ideas from Blog, IM, and IRC.
Basically, by the model, you can subscribe to peoples utterances, and auto-subscribe to the conversations that they partake in.
For example: If you subscribe to me, and I engage in an IM session with other people, then you overhear that conversation. You can filter it out, of course, but you get to see that Lion is having a conversation with his friends.
Suddenly, the web is alight with real live chatter, you are seeing your best friends having conversations as they happen.
Combine real-time indexing and voice-to-text auto-transcription,... but I get ahead of myself.
Basically, treat groups (people conversing in groups, people working in lockstep, whatever) as things in themselves, and make it so you can subscribe to people and their actions and their grouped actions.
Great idea
JC — January 11, 2005 - 11:19I remember reading about it a while back, thanks for reminding me.
It is not going to be long before personal publishing goes horizontal. Today we have blogs that offer a support for posting, conversation, categorisation of content, etc. but specialised services for these functions are appearing (e.g. del.icio.us for categorisation) or are going to appear soon.
The future of personal publishing is in the federation of these services and content contributed by others to significantly boost our learning and sharing experience again.
For me your app prefigures this next phase.
./~JC
conversation?
rich (not verified) — January 7, 2005 - 16:22don't see him replying yet
weaverluke (not verified) — January 5, 2005 - 19:00
my suggestion...
Thanks
JC — January 5, 2005 - 22:18Thanks for pointing this out to me.
I posted a comment on your page, demonstrating how difficult it is to have a conversation using blog comments :-)
./~JC