Integration?

Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.

Recently I came across a discussion about constructing a website to serve as a resource for a community and a nexus for social interaction within that community. One of the possibilities under consideration was providing hosted blogging for community members.

It seemed likely to me that most members of a community (or social subset which could potentially form a community?) who were inclined to be blogging would already be doing so. I think as bloggers often create commentary and dialogue communities of their own, that in addition to providing a platform for new community members to blog if they wish, it could be beneficial to a fledgling community to ask established community bloggers if they would be willing to integrate their blog with the community site.

I suspect that would be a fair degree of technical challenge, since beyond merely syndicating the existing blog to the community website, I am also envisioning a unified comment thread, so that comments made at the blog's primary location would show up at the community site, and likewise comments made at that site by community members would also show up in the blog's own comment stream. At least to me that seems likely an effective balance between attempting to build local community, soliciting the contributions of established community members, and not asking people to uproot the niches they have settled themselves into.

As I said, I suspect there would be a fair amount of technical difficulty in doing such a thing, although I think previously the Bad Astronomy blog has been integrated with the Universe Today forums, so it seems possible and the increasing prevalence of OpenID might make it easier. The variety of blogging software platforms available I suspect makes the problem a lot harder, maybe entirely impractical.

Game-Journals: WoW (Mistpaw, Starlost)

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Mistpaw
New mail today from Vorlock and Starlost, did not disassemble into anything especially interesting. Still waiting on silver rod from Starlost. Going back to sleep.

Starlost
Finally made it to Loch Modan, think I found the guy I was told could show me what to do with this bear meat I found... hope it hasn't gone off by now. This is a nice area. It feels much happier than Bloodmyst. I think I will come back here after I finish helping out there.

Sword is nice and sharp and sparkly. Rawr, swish! Miss my pretty copper armour tho. I guess this stuff is better but I feel all drab. :(

Better get back home, they need me. Wish I could fly back. Maybe mine more on the way?

I feel weird. This is where my sword came from, from the ogres across the loch, but this is my first time here. I couldn't even pick it up not long ago. Maybe someday I can take it all the way back home to visit!

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Darkshore is beautiful.

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That was a lot of smelting... and I got a new hammer for my collection. But we must get back to Blood Watch. I have a princess to save!

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All this running around is making me tired. But we are new to this world so I guess we gotta go to the dwarves an' elves an' humans to find out how to cook the weird creatures here.

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Back to my own made pants now, yay! Prally should go sleep now.