Comments and the Blog Conversation

There was a bitchmeme going around. Scoble, Winer got into the act...

Scoble gets a part of right - we don't really have that much control, but Winer hits on what I think is important: There are already solutions for this (Atom Threading Extensions, RFC 4685, and RSS Comments feature). We can't control what people do with our syndicated content, but we can make it easy for tools to auto-discover the conversation specific to a given blog post.

I've made available a 'whole blog feed' and a 'per thread' feed on each post, but I'm really glad that WordPress 2.5 enabled the Atom Threading Extension 'replies' relation by default.

§451 · April 14, 2008 · Life, Software, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Comments and the Blog Conversation · Tags: , ,

Feeding The Conversation

Since my feeds are now customized as part of my theme, I thought I'd take a look at some of the interesting things you can do. I knew that WordPress supports a variety of feeds at different levels (main feed, main comments feed, per-entry feed, per-category feed, etc).

What I was wondering was if there was a way to link each post in the feed to the comments feed of that story. This would allow a good feed reader to let people easily subscribe from the main feed to the conversation feed of a particular story where they have left a comment. Turns out it was fairly straightforward. Read the rest of this entry ...

§434 · February 27, 2008 · Software, Technology, Web, XML · 1 comment · Tags: ,

Inline vs. Referenced SVG: Best of Both Worlds?

Sam had a good thought over at Erik's blog. In the past, I've mostly been on the side of referenced SVG for clip art - but he raises a good point. Read the rest of this entry ...

§433 · February 27, 2008 · Software, SVG, Technology, Web, XML · Comments Off on Inline vs. Referenced SVG: Best of Both Worlds? · Tags: ,