Comments on: If I was reader.google.com http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/ Digital Media Engineering Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: James Corbett http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/#comment-20453 James Corbett Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:07:55 +0000 http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/#comment-20453 It's interesting that you also include Jaiku as part of the cloud because I've found myself commenting on blog posts more and more by commenting on the post title as sucked into Jaiku. Why do I do this? I think because I feel my comments are more likely to be seen by *my* social group when I post them on Jaiku and I'm more interested in bringing my social group into the discussion than getting their opinions, than in hearing what the blogger's audience thinks, even though the blogger has a way bigger audience than I have followers in Jaiku. I guess you could call it social commenting, where you filter out the conversation to hear just what your followers think. Not that this kind of insularity is necessarily a good thing of course! @Jonathan, that's interesting, 'd no idea Feedburner was restricted in China :( It’s interesting that you also include Jaiku as part of the cloud because I’ve found myself commenting on blog posts more and more by commenting on the post title as sucked into Jaiku. Why do I do this? I think because I feel my comments are more likely to be seen by *my* social group when I post them on Jaiku and I’m more interested in bringing my social group into the discussion than getting their opinions, than in hearing what the blogger’s audience thinks, even though the blogger has a way bigger audience than I have followers in Jaiku. I guess you could call it social commenting, where you filter out the conversation to hear just what your followers think. Not that this kind of insularity is necessarily a good thing of course!

@Jonathan, that’s interesting, ‘d no idea Feedburner was restricted in China :(

]]> By: James Corbett http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/#comment-20452 James Corbett Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:43:37 +0000 http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/#comment-20452 That's kinda how I see it happening too Robin. Referring to Sir Tim's recent great post on the Giant Global Graph, we know that the web is moving away from being document centric towards being object centric. As TBL says, "It's not the documents, it is the things they are about which are important". And in giving an example he says, "when I book a flight it is the flight that interests me. Not the flight page on the travel site, or the flight page on the airline site, but the URI (issued by the airlines) of the flight itself." Similarly it's not the comment *page* that important, as such, rather the individual comments. We'll all own our comments which will live at unique URIs and be combined 'on the fly' to produce a comment page. That’s kinda how I see it happening too Robin. Referring to Sir Tim’s recent great post on the Giant Global Graph, we know that the web is moving away from being document centric towards being object centric.

As TBL says, “It’s not the documents, it is the things they are about which are important”. And in giving an example he says, “when I book a flight it is the flight that interests me. Not the flight page on the travel site, or the flight page on the airline site, but the URI (issued by the airlines) of the flight itself.”

Similarly it’s not the comment *page* that important, as such, rather the individual comments. We’ll all own our comments which will live at unique URIs and be combined ‘on the fly’ to produce a comment page.

]]> By: Robin Blandford http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/#comment-20435 Robin Blandford Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:39:17 +0000 http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/#comment-20435 What would you think if you owned your comment, not the site you post it to? i.e. The discussion would take place in the cloud via FeedBurner / ReWriter (I like it!) / Jaiku / Your Blog.... a bit like trackbacks work today (but never stored on the site). i.e. you @URL1 your comment and the URL you pointed at (URL1) subs to all @URL1 publications. Now the page will track what's happening around it. What would you think if you owned your comment, not the site you post it to? i.e. The discussion would take place in the cloud via FeedBurner / ReWriter (I like it!) / Jaiku / Your Blog…. a bit like trackbacks work today (but never stored on the site). i.e. you @URL1 your comment and the URL you pointed at (URL1) subs to all @URL1 publications. Now the page will track what’s happening around it.

]]> By: Jonathan http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/#comment-20434 Jonathan Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:54:25 +0000 http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/#comment-20434 @James, one thing to remember, Feedburner is still banned in China. Not that it was ever popular over there in the first place though. @James, one thing to remember, Feedburner is still banned in China. Not that it was ever popular over there in the first place though.

]]> By: James Corbett http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/#comment-20433 James Corbett Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:05:43 +0000 http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/#comment-20433 Heh, I've been calling it Google ReWriter ;-) Good ideas, and definitely the way Reader will evolve IMHO. Techcrunch reported in September on the rumours that they'll add a comment feature on shared feeds and I'm sure they'll do some trick with Feedburner too. Heh, I’ve been calling it Google ReWriter ;-)

Good ideas, and definitely the way Reader will evolve IMHO. Techcrunch reported in September on the rumours that they’ll add a comment feature on shared feeds and I’m sure they’ll do some trick with Feedburner too.

]]> By: Jonathan http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/#comment-20429 Jonathan Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:33:19 +0000 http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2007/12/27/if-i-was-readergooglecom/#comment-20429 Interesting idea about the direction google reader could take. I often thought about that comments section, it seems very silly that google reader does not allow comment viewing and very rarely has an accurate representation of the number of comments made. Interesting idea about the direction google reader could take. I often thought about that comments section, it seems very silly that google reader does not allow comment viewing and very rarely has an accurate representation of the number of comments made.

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