I'm perverting the purpose of this thread, but to expand on the compatibility issue:
There seem to be several overlapping classifications of blogs.
1) A news-release type system, with a single blog, one author(s), and users can comment (or not) on the articles.
2) A community/personal type blogging system, with multiple blogs, each with an author, and users may or may not comment on them.
3) A blog of blogs, which is what some of the trackback/ping networks are becoming, and it looks like it's leading up to another proliferation of "me too" sites, which are nothing but repeated content from other sites, like looking into a hall of mirrors.
#3 is the type I'm not at all interested in. There are commercial products, standards and such, that if you want to go that route, feel free :) (or as expensive as it gets). This is the new "spam" type system.
Numbers 1 and 2 are slightly different aspects of the same idea, which is what weblogs started out as. A way to post a running diary on the web, and to get some feedback.
Some people wanted to "preach" from on high, others wanted to just have a release or keep up with friends, and others still wanted to create a news source of original (hopefully) content.
External compatibility is not as important to groups 1 and 2, as they are not publishing feeds, nor taking in feeds. That is more group 3, or larger systems. But, there are more of the users of types 1 and 2, potentially, than of type 3. Sometimes I think the type 3 are just talking to each other.
Right now I'm not as interested in the ping/trackback and RSS features of a blog. All that can be added in later, if the coding is clean. It's more important to me to define what "IS" a blog, feature wise, in constructing the data, displaying the data, and allowing interaction within that blog. *MOST* blogs don't need external communication. That's all done to get visitors/traffic to hopefully click on advertising banners, to generate revenue, etc.
I'm thinking of it within the terms of a Links SQL site, and/or community, that is INTERNALLY driven, not externally. Once people are on the site, they will wander around. Not trying to pull people into the site via blogs. To do that, set up a commercial (or GNU blog), and let others maintain it. In that case you can even use PHP, and run it as an external advertsing program attached to Links. I *really* did get wordpress up and running by unzipping it, editing 4 or 5 lines in ONE file, and clicking on the admin URL.
For this internal type community, pings and trackbacks are not as important (although an _INTERNAL_ link system would be interesting....).
I think some of this has gotten out of hand, and is creating more chaos than order, when these CMS type systems are really supposed to be imposing order upon the chaos.
There has even been some articles posted on Blogging/RSS being the killer of Email. I see it as just exchanging one sort of spam for another, since as the noise rises, and signal is lost, blogs/blog networks will be just as useless as Email for advertising -- "spam" filters are already being developed for blogs!!
So, sticking with concepts 1 and 2, and internally listing/advertising them, and allowing the authors to decide how to externall promote them, seems to be the most prudent, and realistic course at this time.
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