Salsa! Tired.
I’m starting to like the diary on my own homepage, so I’ll probably use the Meatball diary less. I think finding a solution to the “one diary vs. multiple communities” is getting more important for wikis, because if we don’t find a good solution, more and more discussion will retreat to weblogs. And the solutions proposed on some of the pages (MeatBall:RssInclusion, MeatBall:SubscribedChanges) are just not as cool. Perhaps we need something that mixes normal diary (eg. RssInclusion without touching RecentChanges) and the occasional on-topic diary entry targeted at one community only... I’m still now happy with that, though.
Add TrackBack support into the wiki. What that would do is allow us bloggers to blog on. When we have a blog post that’s on-topic with a specific community (or more specificly with a wiki’s topic page) we link to that page. Blogs which support autotrackback will then “ping” the wiki page with the url of the blog entry, the blogger’s name, and most of the blog text. You could add an invariant section to each wiki page to show the trackbacks. So, you’d have the standard wiki page, then a list of sites that’s referenced that wiki page with an excerpt of their comment. That would allow bloggers to put their personal diary on their home page in a single place, and reference the appropriate wiki community – MeatBall:DougAlcorn 17 June 2003
See MeatBall:TrackBack for some thoughts on this.