On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:47:22 +0100, ecomputerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I took a look at two proponents of interactive videoblogs (I'm a > little bit sorry for calling you out, but correct me if I'm wrong on > any of this!) Andreas' blog looks like it only has trackbacks to > blog posts on another (presumably your own) blog. Since my name is mentioned I should say something, huh. :o) I don't know what you're calling me out on... the fact that I don't have a lot of readers and thus not a lot of trackbacks? Well, and they were broken for over 8 months recently. I did recieve a bunch of interesting propositions about bondage and poker, but I deleted those. Thankfully there are some useful trackbacks on my site too. Part of the "problem" (apart from not having many readers) is that not all blog systems send trackbacks (Blogger is the biggest one). In addition the trackback specification was sort of FUBAR from the beginning in regards to spam, pingbacks are better, but only one big blog system supports them (Wordpress). Anyway, I don't have comments on my blog. It's part philosophy (I'd much rather encourage people writing on their own blogs), part pragmatism (I have to write the damn comments system myself). My kind of snarky answer to you is: Why should I care about PDA users? I mean, you're trying to fir in online actions to an offline device. Shouldn't it be your problem to work out, and not mine? :o) One way to get something like the <comments> element to "work" is to locally allow your user to write his comment. Save these associated with the <comments> data (or the <link> or <guid> or 15 other ways of designating a permalink in RSS 2.0). When a connection is available pulls up the comments page and have the comments text saved in a clipboard like function. The user can then insert his comment (and name, url, email - all saved in a setting somewhere) and click the submit button. Of course by the time the guy is online again his comments will already be obsolete because someone else commented the exact same point while he was messing around with his PDA. :o) - Andreas -- <URL:http://www.solitude.dk/> Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
