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September 26, 2005
Mena Trott's Mom Is A DEMOGod
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Mena Trott writes about the unveiling of a next generation blogging solution that builds on the legacy of Typepad and LiveJournal, called Comet. Her mom helped in the demo at DEMO, and was awarded the coveted DEMOGod status. The demo was structured around answering the concerns that a person like her mom might have with regard to posting in a public blog:
[from
Six Apart - Mena's Corner: Mena Trott's Mom]
We went through all her concerns and showed how “Comet” addresses them. First, she does have things to say — she emails me and calls me constantly. If she was just to write about the family, she’d have more than enough content. But if she was to write about the family, she’d feel uncomfortable about anyone being able to read it. Therefore, we’ve provided privacy options that let only certain groups read your content. Not only that, but we provide views from the groups she has set up in dynamically driven pages that can be organized by keywords and topics. And finally, we’ve built in aggregation in both the application and the “published” pages.
We’ve taken the stuff we’ve learned from the community features of LiveJournal and mixed them with the publishing features of Movable Type and TypePad. And we’ve made it extremely media-rich. Adding photos, audio, books and music reviews, etc... is as easy as dragging and dropping files into your posting screen.
Sounds like Comet is an attempt to answer the 'pulling together the threads' issue I have been writing about; but I think the reality is that no one vendor will really manage the creation of all the threads. Folks like Typepad will have to deal with an explosion of media types, and new, specialized forms of bloggish expression: music reviews here, movies reviews there, food posts, over yonder, vlogs somewhere else. It will be interesting to see how a horizontal blog technology, like SixApart's, fares in the fragmented and federated world that is coming.
I foresee increasing interest in specialized bloggish tools -- like Last.fm's Journal for music reviews, and Flickr for photos -- and some sort of personalized aggregation tool -- a la Netvibes -- to render a complete picture of people's many streams. Will there be a place for general purpose blogging tools, at all?
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1. PHENTERMINE on April 5, 2006 12:20 AM writes...
What other drugs will affect phentermine?
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2. XANAX on April 5, 2006 03:33 PM writes...
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Permalink to Comment3. CLONAZEPAM on April 8, 2006 02:48 PM writes...
What is the most important information I should know about Clonazepam?
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Permalink to CommentWhat is Clonazepam?
Clonazepam is in a class of drugs called benzodiazepines. Clonazepam affects chemicals in your brain that may become unbalanced and cause seizures.
Clonazepam is used to treat seizures.
Clonazepam may also be used for purposes other than those listed in this medication guide.