A vision for the next generation of blogging tools
here are excerpts of reply to an invitation by Dave Winer about the idea about the next generation of blogging tools.
1) Help me navigate through my daily/perpetual inbox, and search
through my ever expanding archive of feeds.
* Prioritization
* Filtering
* Trusted referral - peer review
* Summarization - copy the juiciest parts of a post at the top
* Threading
* Geo sensititivity - extra weight for posts that are close to my blog's
hometown, a list of locations I care about (towns where my family
lives, where I went to college or lived before), and locations about
which I've blogged. Closer is better. Optional: negative weight for
places I don't want to know about, like Crawford, Texas.
* Clustering. Think how Google clusters related stories from multiple
sources.
* Behavior analysis and related techniques.
all to help me manage a flow of 10,000 subscriptions in a reasonable
time with reasonable effort.
2) I have a blogroll maintained by blogrolling.com
now what i want is a rss reader which will show the contents
automatcaly from the blogs in my blogrooll, rather than adding maually
each subscription to my rss reader.
3) Ability To Auto-Detect RSS Feeds From A Document
(Weblog/Word/etc.) And Present An Interface Allowing For Quick
Addition Of New Subscriptions
4) what is hot on my site,
For me 95% of my hits come through google to old entries...I know what they are looking at because of my stats, but no one else knows where the activity is on the site.....'whats hot'....might be the feature.
5) chat-blogging
What you're writing is posted as you write it, word for word, live on a web page that your audience can see and respond to as you write it if they wish.
6) : Distributed posting.
My blog should be not only what I put on my blog but what I put elsewhere -- a comment on your blog, an article in the paper, a review on Amazon, a song on iTunes. My blog should be able to aggregate all the things I create anywhere with nothing more than a simple identification that it's mine.
7) Make it easy to post from any mobile device at any length with any media type.
: Make it easy to read from any mobile device.
8) The problem with tracking blog links is that we assume they are all positive. Of course, many are negative. We want to capture that difference. Technorati has a suggested standard but it requires tagging smarts. Build it into the tool: Instead of one link button, give me three: positive, negative, neutral.
9) I would also like cross posting blogs.
Say 3 of my friends and I each have our personal blogs. We also want to be able to run a common blog. The interface would be they we go to our personal blog, make an entry and click a checkbox (show this also on the common blog)
10) I'd like to see built into the google toolbar or browser, an icon that shows whether the webpage your looking at has been blogged about.
For example I visit a BBC news story page (some of which i know let u enter comments but hey), the icon may say '11' blogs about this page. Clicking on the button would naturally show the blogs, which would be gathered from everyones blogs who blogged that page.
Solution : the icon that shows wether a page as been bloged could also be an applet?!? that pops up the "google.com/serch?link:" page... or feedster.com
11) I'm using a blog to provide customer service to our subscription-based job search service:
http://www.cenedella.com/stone/archives/000891.html
I'd like to see integration with Outlook (outgoing emails can be bcc'd to the blog) so that both the email answering of clients and the posting can be combined in one swoop.
really very very interesting and innovative ideas.
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