[Social] blog integration

[Itay Neeman]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im> wrote:
> Itay Neeman wrote:
>  > Do people have any more thoughts on the matter? So far, the main points
>  > seems to be:
>  >
>  > 1. We need a way to link pubsub items to other pubsub items (whether PEP
>  > or vanilla PubSub). This can involve links to nodes on other pubsub
>  > services as well.
>
>  What exactly do we mean by links? Do we mean things like "in-reply-to"
>  and "in-reference-to"? It seems to me that we're basically talking about
>  distributed threading of some kind. I assume the NNTP people solved this
>  problem back in 1987 or so. :)

I quote you :)

"However I think in general that we'll want to link pubsub items (for a
wide variety of use cases, not just blogging/comments/SNA stuff) so
we'll need to define that anyway."

That's what I mean by linking (sorry if this was unclear). Did NNTP solve
this? Probably, but we need a solution in the context of XMPP, and
one which is agreed on, obviously.

>
>
>  > 2. It is unclear what the best node topology for a blog is.
>
>  I think this is more than blogs -- this is linking between any two given
>  pubsub nodes or items. Blogging is one application of that, but so might
>  be an NNTP-like netnews system.

Exactly. But the ability to cross-reference items is very potent in allowing
a lot of flexibility the non-blogging scenarios as well.

>
>
>  > Anything I missed? From looking at SIOC, it looks like it might be a
>  > contender for linking things.
>
>  I must admit that my mind does natively think in terms of RDF.
>

Neither does mine! :)

Itay