RE: [dita-fa-edboard] RE: DITA Blogs

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

In the short term, would it help if the "Post new blog entry" at
http://dita.xml.org/blog was directed to a page like this: 

*****************************
DITA BLOGS is provided for people who want to blog about DITA on a regular
basis. Each DITA blog is a regularly updated journal made up of individual
posts shown in reversed chronological order. 

Do not use this space to:
* ask technical questions--post those to Forums <link>
* sell something--post a Product <link> or Services <link> listing 
* make an announcement--create a News <link> or Events <link> item
 
If you would like to share your opinions, observations, and experiences about
DITA, please submit your blog here <http://dita.xml.org/node/add/blog>.

*****************************

Carol



-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Geyer [mailto:carol.geyer@oasis-open.org] 
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 2:18 PM
To: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
Subject: [dita-fa-edboard] RE: DITA Blogs

I agree with Don's suggestion below, although I hesitate to get into Drupal
customization. Let me see if I can find any alternatives.
Carol

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Day [mailto:dond@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 12:49 PM
To: Carol Geyer
Cc: mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
Subject: Re: DITA Blogs

I just now took a look too--I overlooked your earlier note. These both seem
elementary to me, so I don't think I can recommend either one over what we
have already.

All of these modules including the current one seem to encourage arbitrary
posts that have no relevance--the recent one about DITA and Nostradamus
really looks like trolling in the absurd sense.  I think that having the
formalism of registering a blog name and having defined "spaces" would help
steer casual posters to the use of forums (which about 50% of the current
blog entries really belong in).  By adding a prefix to a title (like my
"Daylights") helps make an entry something that stands out a bit more, but
categorization by that name would really be ideal, I think.  Again, the
setup effort should be enough to make it worthwhile to repeat presence
posters (good) and discourage one-shot posters (noise in the spectrum).

Regards,
--
Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect
Email: dond@us.ibm.com
11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758
Phone: +1 512-838-8550
T/L: 678-8550

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
 Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
   --T.S. Eliot


                                                                           
             "Carol Geyer"                                                 
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Michael, Don,
I know we're not completely pleased with the way our Drupal site handles
blogs.
I noticed two new blogging modules at http://drupal.org/project/blogger and
http://drupal.org/project/blogroll. When you have a second, please take a
look,
and let me know if you think either of these would be an improvement for
us.
Thanks,
Carol

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