Re: [osol-discuss] blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?
Roland Mainz wrote: Hi! Today I stumbled over http://blogs.sun.com/olympus/ and http://blogs.sun.com/samqfs/ (erm, this is not thought as offense against the QFS or Olympus people but AFAIK group/project blogs should be in the project-specific blogging areas at opensolaris.org and not at blogs.sun.com) ... somehow this feels not good that products start to have blogs (except they start to run and think without human assistance... :-) ), e.g. people could think that the whole blogs.sun.com is just a marketing thing and not really a personal blogging site with real people... ;-( Exactly what has this got to do with OpenSolaris ? and what about blogs.sun.com/security which was originally just an RSS feed for Sun Security Alerts but is now also a group blog of the Sun security community. Though again exactly what has this got to do with OpenSolaris ? -- Darren J Moffat ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?
Roland Mainz wrote: Hi! Today I stumbled over http://blogs.sun.com/olympus/ and http://blogs.sun.com/samqfs/ (erm, this is not thought as offense against the QFS or Olympus people but AFAIK group/project blogs should be in the project-specific blogging areas at opensolaris.org and not at blogs.sun.com) ... somehow this feels not good that products start to have blogs (except they start to run and think without human assistance... :-) ), e.g. people could think that the whole blogs.sun.com is just a marketing thing and not really a personal blogging site with real people... ;-( Bye, Roland Hi, The samqfs blog was created by a member of the SAM-QFS Engineering team to bring more visibility to the project. We just recently had a project approved for OpenSolaris and are working on getting that project page set up. It seems that there are different opinions on where the blog should live. I don't have the answer for that. I do know that the blog was created before the OpenSolaris project, and that it is not a marketing effort. Regards, Tom Albers SAM-QFS Engineering ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?
Hi! Today I stumbled over http://blogs.sun.com/olympus/ and http://blogs.sun.com/samqfs/ (erm, this is not thought as offense against the QFS or Olympus people but AFAIK group/project blogs should be in the project-specific blogging areas at opensolaris.org and not at blogs.sun.com) ... somehow this feels not good that products start to have blogs (except they start to run and think without human assistance... :-) ), e.g. people could think that the whole blogs.sun.com is just a marketing thing and not really a personal blogging site with real people... ;-( Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, CJAVASunUnix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?
somehow this feels not good that products start to have blogs It can be interesting to meet real people behind a product share their views from the other side of the fence. For instance, Microsoft's IEBlog is quite popular. The concept of group blogs is okay, though some implementation are good and some are bad. In fact, personal blogs sometimes sound not-so-personal as well. -Artem. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?
Artem Kachitchkine wrote: somehow this feels not good that products start to have blogs It can be interesting to meet real people behind a product share their views from the other side of the fence. Right... and I don't disagree with that... but somehow the idea that products start to have their own blogs ... sounds... uhm... weired. Until now I always associated blogs with real living people and not something like a product which starts writing it's blog (Cyc may be an execption but AFAIK noone tried such an experiment yet... ;-/ ). Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, CJAVASunUnix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?
Right... and I don't disagree with that... but somehow the idea that products start to have their own blogs ... sounds... uhm... weired. I think you're reading it too literally. It is common for groups in organizations to be named after the product they are working on. So perhaps when they call the blog olympus, they really mean group_of_people_working_on_the_olympus_product_line, it'd just be more typing. You can actually see names of people under each posting. But again, it's really the contents and style of the postings that matter. Nothing prevents group blog contributors from sharing personal views and experiences. If they start mirrorig dump press releases there, then that would be a problem, though not with group blogging as a whole, but with some people not understanding the concept of blogging. -Artem. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] blogs.sun.com invaded by marketing ?
So I have the problem that when I blog, I might be doing it on OpenSolaris, soccer coaching, science fiction, etc. While that is good in that it shows I have interests outside of work, it creates many threads of conversation which it can be hard to navigate through. I just recently learned that for the blog feeds for projects and communities, you could differentiate based on category. So, for the NFS community, I could tell it to only pull my NFS blog entries and not my science fiction blog entries. I think that some people are also confused about this and want to focus attention just to the specific project. Instead of learning how to aggregate on a web page or to redistribute a feed (like planet.opensolaris.org), they focus in on a group blog. I wouldn't call this organized marketing, I'd liken it more to grassroots or guerrilla marketing. The difference being that it isn't the marketing department driving some agenda, it is simply a development group pushing awareness of their own work on the world. I'd also argue that most corporate based blogging falls under this category. And most open source developers are probably just as proud to get their products out in the open. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
