Store your own comments (as a solution to “comment aggregation”)
Stephen Downes just posted a really good idea on my post about ‘comment aggregation’.
Marc - I have long thought that the way comments (and email, for that matter) should be processed is that when a comment is made - no matter where it’s made - it is posted and stored on the commenter’s (or emailer’s) OWN server.
This would be enabled by something like OpenID, which would tell a remote site where the comment should be posed (I log on as downes.openid.ca which tells the blog website to sent my comment to a form at downes.openid.ca/comments.cgi)
I think that so long as we leave content on other people’s sites (or in their in-boxes) we will have the dual problems of spam and host lock-in.
The primary use of OpenID should not simply be identification, but also, to tell remote sites where to direct our actions. So - in a sense - I carry all my own home website tools with me when I travel around the web.
You can see all comments on this post here:
http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2009/02/comment-aggregation#comments
So an open source, self-hosted version of Disqus/Intense Debate?
So an open source, self-hosted version of Disqus/Intense Debate?
This sounds a *lot* like OpenMicroBlogging (only with longer messages).
Perhaps the OMB spec and the AGPL code in Laconica could be used to implement this (maybe as a Wordpress plugin)?
I know Evan’s working on integrating cross-server at-replies in version 0.2 of the spec, and this seems like a logical extension of that.
So ideally, there’d be a generic “Comment on this” link here. Clicking it would take one to their Identi.ca / Twitter / whatever account.
The “Sup?” box would be prefilled with some magic string (like an at-reply) which would reference this post, syntax something like
re:http://example.com/post-urkl. (This is similar to amailto:foo@example.org?subject=barlink for email.) I’d enter my comment and you’d be pinged as you describe.This sounds a *lot* like OpenMicroBlogging (only with longer messages).
Perhaps the OMB spec and the AGPL code in Laconica could be used to implement this (maybe as a Wordpress plugin)?
I know Evan’s working on integrating cross-server at-replies in version 0.2 of the spec, and this seems like a logical extension of that.
So ideally, there’d be a generic “Comment on this” link here. Clicking it would take one to their Identi.ca / Twitter / whatever account.
The “Sup?” box would be prefilled with some magic string (like an at-reply) which would reference this post, syntax something like
re:http://example.com/post-urkl. (This is similar to amailto:foo@example.org?subject=barlink for email.) I’d enter my comment and you’d be pinged as you describe.This is exactly what I’m waiting for. Disqus & Co is not for me.
This is exactly what I’m waiting for. Disqus & Co is not for me.