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Will blogging be the end of the shared Notes forum?
By Andrew Pollack on 08/26/2003 at 11:31 AM EDTFor years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum. More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain. I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
re: Will blogging be the end of the shared Notes forum?By Carl on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
re: Will blogging be the end of the shared Notes forum?By Carl on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
:oh one thing, the submit should be below this edit box rather than above.
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More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
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in response to
------------------------------------------------------------------------------For years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum.
More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
re: Will blogging be the end of the shared Notes forum?By Jens on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
Well, in fact, I did not think about that, bat you have a point here. These
fora will come back to have a better noise/information ratio, but the fact is,
that this may bring the overal volume down to the point, where the fora don't
be active enough to be kept alive. Really worth thinking about it.
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in response to
------------------------------------------------------------------------------For years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum.
More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
fora will come back to have a better noise/information ratio, but the fact is,
that this may bring the overal volume down to the point, where the fora don't
be active enough to be kept alive. Really worth thinking about it.
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in response to
------------------------------------------------------------------------------For years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum.
More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
re: Will blogging be the end of the shared Notes forum?By Richard Schwartz on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
Several months ago there was a discussion that ranged across several blogs.
It started in Ben's
http://www.geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/archive/20030516-0839%20AM?OpenDocument#po
st It was mentioned in several others, then I moved to mine
http://smokey.rhs.com/web/blog/rhs.nsf/stories/There'sNoPlaceLikeHome. The
theme was the idea that the blog is like your home, whereas the forum was the
town meeting. When people visit you in your home, or vice versa, there is no
chairman and there is no parliamentary procedure, but there are also no
loudmouths who have to get their say about every issue. People know it is your
home and they treat it as such. While there are certainly some flame wars
going on in blogs, they are more rare than you will see in the LDD discussions,
and blogs usually even seem just a little more civil than such places as the
Lotus BP Forum.
I think that both forms of dialog will survive for the long term.
-rich
P.S. When one clicks on the hotspot to bring up the rich text editor, data
previously filled into the email address and name fields are lost.
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For years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum.
More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
It started in Ben's
http://www.geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/archive/20030516-0839%20AM?OpenDocument#po
st It was mentioned in several others, then I moved to mine
http://smokey.rhs.com/web/blog/rhs.nsf/stories/There'sNoPlaceLikeHome. The
theme was the idea that the blog is like your home, whereas the forum was the
town meeting. When people visit you in your home, or vice versa, there is no
chairman and there is no parliamentary procedure, but there are also no
loudmouths who have to get their say about every issue. People know it is your
home and they treat it as such. While there are certainly some flame wars
going on in blogs, they are more rare than you will see in the LDD discussions,
and blogs usually even seem just a little more civil than such places as the
Lotus BP Forum.
I think that both forms of dialog will survive for the long term.
-rich
P.S. When one clicks on the hotspot to bring up the rich text editor, data
previously filled into the email address and name fields are lost.
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in response to
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For years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum.
More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
I've noticed some of thisBy Ed Brill on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
:but I think that if any of the Domino blogs properly implemented trackback, it
wouldn't matter as much -- we'd all be able to follow the thread of discussions
on the blogs.
What is upsetting to me is that some of the bloggers have decided that their
blog is the center of the universe, and as such, they no longer need to
actively participate in other discussions -- either on other blogs or on forum
such as the BP Forum. To me, that's a pretty quick way to lose the
credibility/ego balance battle.
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For years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum.
More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
wouldn't matter as much -- we'd all be able to follow the thread of discussions
on the blogs.
What is upsetting to me is that some of the bloggers have decided that their
blog is the center of the universe, and as such, they no longer need to
actively participate in other discussions -- either on other blogs or on forum
such as the BP Forum. To me, that's a pretty quick way to lose the
credibility/ego balance battle.
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in response to
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For years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum.
More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
re: I've noticed some of thisBy Andrew Pollack on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
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Track back is part of it, RSS is a key part. The blogs I read that don't have
RSS I don't read as often.
I hope to have trackback set up here shortly.
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:but I think that if any of the Domino blogs properly implemented trackback, it
wouldn't matter as much -- we'd all be able to follow the thread of discussions
on the blogs. What is upsetting to me is that some of the bloggers have decided
that their blog is the center of the universe, and as such, they no longer need
to actively participate in other discussions -- either on other blogs or on
forum such as the BP Forum. To me, that's a pretty quick way to lose the
credibility/ego balance battle.
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in response to
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For years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum.
More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
Track back is part of it, RSS is a key part. The blogs I read that don't have
RSS I don't read as often.
I hope to have trackback set up here shortly.
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in response to
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:but I think that if any of the Domino blogs properly implemented trackback, it
wouldn't matter as much -- we'd all be able to follow the thread of discussions
on the blogs. What is upsetting to me is that some of the bloggers have decided
that their blog is the center of the universe, and as such, they no longer need
to actively participate in other discussions -- either on other blogs or on
forum such as the BP Forum. To me, that's a pretty quick way to lose the
credibility/ego balance battle.
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in response to
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For years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum.
More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
re: Will blogging be the end of the shared Notes forum?By Gerco Wolfswinkel on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
: Good question, Andrew. I do hope the forums survive. Because there are so
many blogs around, it's far less easy to locate useful content, than it is in
one single forum. In a forum people respond to one another, it's one thread,
easy to replicate etcetera. In the blogosphere people respond to other bloggers
in their own blog, and this means you need to read multiple blogs to keep an
overview of what's being discussed. OTOH, I like the free style of the blogs,
anything is open to discussion and the blogger defines the rules - and that
enables us to go to another level of discussion sometimes. That is a good
thing, imho.
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in response to
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For years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum.
More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
many blogs around, it's far less easy to locate useful content, than it is in
one single forum. In a forum people respond to one another, it's one thread,
easy to replicate etcetera. In the blogosphere people respond to other bloggers
in their own blog, and this means you need to read multiple blogs to keep an
overview of what's being discussed. OTOH, I like the free style of the blogs,
anything is open to discussion and the blogger defines the rules - and that
enables us to go to another level of discussion sometimes. That is a good
thing, imho.
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in response to
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For years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum.
More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?
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in response to
------------------------------------------------------------------------------For years, I've been an active participant in the Lotus Business Partner Forum.
More recently, I've been very active in the forum we Penumbra members maintain.
I'm seeing that a majority of the most active members of these venues are
blogging. I'm also seeing less and less of the usual chatter and opinion pieces
being posted in those fora. That kind of content seems to be migrating to
people's blogs, while the fora become more specifically the technical and
business interaction sites for more formalized topics that they were probably
intended to be. The question is, can they survive that way?