Comments on: Blogs vs. Forums http://blog.finke.ws/2007/02/19/blogs-vs-forums/ Some worthless information from my brain. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeremy http://blog.finke.ws/2007/02/19/blogs-vs-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-9657 Jeremy Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:20:55 +0000 http://blog.finke.ws/?p=22#comment-9657 I have not looked lately. I gave up for a while. The site I was thinking about launching, I have put on the back burner. I did notice you posted something over at Andy's site. I will have to check out what he has done lately. Like I said, he is bright guy. SMF through their API does provide a lot of functionality. I think that there may be a mod or something floating around for blog functionality. There was one for TinyPortal, but I think that they stopped developing it. But as far as SMF goes, it would probably not be too hard to roll your own. I see your point about SEO. I don't know how much emphasis that google would put on accessing an article with one url and then the same article with comments on another url. Any thoughts? j I have not looked lately. I gave up for a while. The site I was thinking about launching, I have put on the back burner.

I did notice you posted something over at Andy’s site. I will have to check out what he has done lately. Like I said, he is bright guy.

SMF through their API does provide a lot of functionality. I think that there may be a mod or something floating around for blog functionality. There was one for TinyPortal, but I think that they stopped developing it. But as far as SMF goes, it would probably not be too hard to roll your own.

I see your point about SEO. I don’t know how much emphasis that google would put on accessing an article with one url and then the same article with comments on another url. Any thoughts?

j

]]> By: ririzarry http://blog.finke.ws/2007/02/19/blogs-vs-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-9656 ririzarry Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:51:57 +0000 http://blog.finke.ws/?p=22#comment-9656 Jeremy: I came across your article while searching for much the same functionality. I'm of a similar mind that there's a lot to gain from closely integrating blog and forum. Have you had any further success in coming up with a solution that met your needs? I just happen to be looking at Andy's Simple Forum plugin and so far it seems to come closest to what we're trying to achieve. One thing I'd have some concerns over is the potentially negative SEO impact from duplicating content between the blog and the forum. Jeremy: I came across your article while searching for much the same functionality. I’m of a similar mind that there’s a lot to gain from closely integrating blog and forum.

Have you had any further success in coming up with a solution that met your needs? I just happen to be looking at Andy’s Simple Forum plugin and so far it seems to come closest to what we’re trying to achieve.

One thing I’d have some concerns over is the potentially negative SEO impact from duplicating content between the blog and the forum.

]]> By: Jeremy http://blog.finke.ws/2007/02/19/blogs-vs-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-1459 Jeremy Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:20:40 +0000 http://blog.finke.ws/?p=22#comment-1459 Well, Andy is a pretty bright guy. So, it would not surprise me if he got something working. It has been a while since I have chatted with him about it as my needs have changed. However, I do still believe it is the next "evolution" of these two types of products. Something like this would work great for something like SI.com where they have these huge long discussions, but it is all in blog style. I was not able to find what you were pointing to. Do you have a link to a particular page on his site? As I mentioned earlier, the best thing I have found so far is SMF's capability to hack into the forum using their SSI.php api. I believe that there are actually a couple of blog plugins that have been developed, but I don't know how well they are supported. And if you use tinyportal (<a href="http://www.tinyportal.net" rel="nofollow">www.tinyportal.net</a>), there was one for there as well, however, I think it has been dropped at the moment. Jeremy Well, Andy is a pretty bright guy. So, it would not surprise me if he got something working. It has been a while since I have chatted with him about it as my needs have changed.

However, I do still believe it is the next “evolution” of these two types of products. Something like this would work great for something like SI.com where they have these huge long discussions, but it is all in blog style.

I was not able to find what you were pointing to. Do you have a link to a particular page on his site?

As I mentioned earlier, the best thing I have found so far is SMF’s capability to hack into the forum using their SSI.php api. I believe that there are actually a couple of blog plugins that have been developed, but I don’t know how well they are supported. And if you use tinyportal (http://www.tinyportal.net), there was one for there as well, however, I think it has been dropped at the moment.

Jeremy

]]> By: johanhorak http://blog.finke.ws/2007/02/19/blogs-vs-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-1458 johanhorak Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:49:21 +0000 http://blog.finke.ws/?p=22#comment-1458 Hi Jeremy Just read your article. I notice that www.yellowswordfish.com has a beta "Blog/Forum linking: Write a blog post and have it create a new forum topic. Or - create a new forum topic and trigger the creation of a blog post. All automatic." I need it as well. Johan Hi Jeremy

Just read your article.
I notice that http://www.yellowswordfish.com has a beta
“Blog/Forum linking: Write a blog post and have it create a new forum topic. Or – create a new forum topic and trigger the creation of a blog post. All automatic.”

I need it as well.

Johan

]]> By: Jeremy http://blog.finke.ws/2007/02/19/blogs-vs-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-566 Jeremy Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:18:57 +0000 http://blog.finke.ws/?p=22#comment-566 Another interesting thing I have discovered: SMF forums has the ability to open some apis. With those apis you can develop sites such as the SMF blog site where the blogs and comments are really just SMF forums: http://blogs.simplemachines.org/team/all/ Another interesting thing I have discovered: SMF forums has the ability to open some apis. With those apis you can develop sites such as the SMF blog site where the blogs and comments are really just SMF forums:

http://blogs.simplemachines.org/team/all/

]]> By: Jeremy http://blog.finke.ws/2007/02/19/blogs-vs-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-565 Jeremy Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:08:19 +0000 http://blog.finke.ws/?p=22#comment-565 I have found a new product that just recently started development. It is called WP-United and it's purpose is to embed WP into phpBB. There is even some secondary functionality being developed to do it in the reverse, embed phpBB into WP. It can be found here: http://www.wp-united.com/. I have found a new product that just recently started development. It is called WP-United and it’s purpose is to embed WP into phpBB. There is even some secondary functionality being developed to do it in the reverse, embed phpBB into WP. It can be found here: http://www.wp-united.com/.

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