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Le futur du blog... discussion.
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blogcamp.ch notes, may be inaccurate
with Gabor Cselle
Barcamp: talk about stuff. Where is blogging technology going to go? What are the trends?
Blogging software is about adding features, growing ecosystem (technorati, digg etc. steph-note: god am I sick of those popularity things), pseudo-blogging things (Twitter etc. *steph-note: I don’t agree with Twitter being called a “microblogging” platform.)
Who writes for who? (Twitter: an individual writing for a small bunch of friends.)
Getting paid for blogging? Ads… or indirect revenue. Micropayments (indiekarma — looks interesting).
steph-note: this is going to be more about my ideas following the discussion more than an account of what is said
Where I see blogging technology going: ajaxy flickr-like interfaces (the death of the admin panel for posting and editing), smarter privacy management (à la Facebook: blog tool knows who you are and shows you stuff you are allowed to see based on your relationship as defined by the blog author), of course, smarter language stuff. Maybe smart internal linking: post something, and have the blog tool dig through old posts, offer you possible related material to link to (yes, there are already related posts plugins).
Wiki and blog technology will not merge, because blogs are about the person behind it, and wikis are about diluting authorship and crowd-voice.
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[…] The first session I went to was called “Wissensmanagement mit internem Multi-Blog” (en: Knowledge management with internal Multi Blog) by Jürg Stucker (CEO of namics ag) in German.They always had the problem, that if people needed information, they sent emails to the whole company and that generated a high volume of emails nobody really wanted and cared about and that the actual information and solution died in somebody’s inbox and others had to ask again.A half year ago they rethought this and came up with a “multi-blog-platform” where every user could start a posting on a topic (his example was: a designer was searching for “red websites”) and the co-workers can comment to this post and add value. Pretty cool concept. But I had my doubts if really everybody was using this. He answered that the biggest “bloggers” are the consultants, they like to talk anyway he added. But the stats he showed that the real top-posters are the engineers, the CEO, a marketing guy and some consultants. He also added, that the designers needed the most time to “get it” and use it. But now the whole system gets between 10 and 30 new posts/comments a day. I really see a future in this. But we really need an open source system together with some nice AJAX features like Stephanie Booth wants. […]