April 17, 2004
BloggerCon: Welcome & Visions from Users
UPDATE: Oh for pete's sake -- the following post is by Tara (not Dave). Grrr.
From the stifling heat of Pound 200, I bring you my take on BloggerCon II. This time around, I know more of the attendees and discussion leaders (not difficult, considering last year I knew none). But, like last time, the seating arrangement in Pound hall is some of the most uncomforable known to mankind.
So far, Lisa Williams has talked about Visions from Users in her session. Some of the wishlist items that came out of that discussion were:
- support for hierarchical categorization
- popfile-like categorization
- integrating different styles of posts (long essays/filter style)
- the ability to listen to blogs while you’re doing the dishes (not necessarily audblogs, but text-to-speech)
- audblog posts with titles or at-a-glance info
- sites more accessible to mobile readers and text readers
- sidebar on your blog showing what you’ve commented elsewhere
- trackback is hard to explain and implement
- hard to see distributed conversations even with Technorati, trackback, comments
- more comment control – highlighting ones the poster likes
- threaded comments like forums
- printer-friendly entries
- database structures
- email this post to a friend
- educate more users on RSS and aggregators
And Andrew Grumet is now talking about blog infrastructure. I'm interested in learning more about BitTorrent, gotta go pay attention...