[wp-hackers] Posted Elsewhere Feature

[Robert Deaton]

Graham, it sounds like a very good idea, but would be very time
consuming and would problably not be supported by other major blogging
software until much later. It would require a lot of special thought
and consideration and even collaberation between blog software to
accomplish such a thing. It is possible though.


On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:05:47 -0700, Graham Walker <gwalker at gmail.com> wrote:
> I post comments on a lot of other blogs, but I can never seem to keep
> track of them, to keep the conversations going. Sometimes I'll
> trackback-ping an entry on another site to add my two cents, but
> sometimes I want to just comment on someone's own entry, instead of
> making my own. I've been doing some brainstorming about it, and I just
> wanted to hear what everyone thought of the idea--something like a
> reverse trackback. It would work similar to Matt Haughey's Posted
> Elsewhere feature: (down the page on the right)
> http://a.wholelottanothing.org/
> 
> I'm not a hardcore coder or anything, so I have no idea how this would
> necessarily work, but I think it would tie a lot of the dropped
> conversations together in the blogging world. Something like this:
> 
> I post a comment at Person X's blog, and enter my weblog URL.
> Person X's blog software somehow pings *my* blog, which then (publicly
> or privately) adds Person X's blog entry to my list of "Posted
> Elsewheres."
> This list is perhaps an RSS feed of Person X's entry, so I can be
> alerted if there's a new comment added to the entry.
> 
> Make sense? Doable? Would people use this? I think it'd be a cool
> feature for Wordpress (and all blogging software), personally, but I
> have no idea how to make it work.
> 
> just a brainstorm,
> graham
> 
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