• Related Work

    Discourse

    Discourse is internet discussion forum. “Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more!” business model Paid for hosting: payments.discourse.org/pricing team Jeff Atwood, co-founder and co-founder of Stack Overflow Robin Ward, co-founder Sam Saffron, co-founder discourse.org

  • Perspective

    What Sucks about Blogging

    Blogging as a practice is just fine, what sucks is that the way we do it isn’t hypertexty enough. Blogging as a practice in itself doesn’t suck at all. Writing diary or articles or entries in a journal is just fine. It’s the way how we do it today that needs improvement. I have an incomplete list of desired hypertext capabilities, but when looking at only blogging activities in isolation, it’s also clear that a different hypertext capability profile/subset is needed than for other modes of working on/with text. What sucks about blogging on the web is the absence of that particular capability profile. This is an incomplete list as…