Hi Jeremy and folks,

I wonder if people nowadays prefer to post their creative output on their own blogs rather than in fora, where their identity is often more ambiguous, and where they don't keep control of it. Sure, forum maintainers may enter certain obligations w.r.t. privacy and intellectual property, but at the end of the day, if the forum goes bust for whatever reason (technical/financial), the contribution made by the individual is wiped off the planet.

Now, what if people could elect to automatically cross-post their forum posts to their blog? I've never built any interfaces to sites that require logins, but since there is GPLed code available within guis such as drivel, it shouldn't be too hard to make an interface like this.

Just a thought - I'm sure someone will come along and do it, because what makes sense to one gone nut (me) will make sense to another...

Regards,

Samsara
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Ok. Right now (this time of writing) there are "Total Threads: 364,638 | Total Posts: 1,863,232".

How would you propose searching for an answer to your question?

Also, not everyone has or wants a blog, so that wouldn't help. And finally, what you have here is a community - one where we help each other and receive help. Putting answers on a blog would negate that. A number of our members post things here and to their websites, there's no big deal with that. But I don't want to help someone, only to find that my words end up on someone else's blog and they take credit for it.

plus, the way I see it, blogs are for personal stuff, announcements etc. the forums are for questions.

blog: "LQ is going to London"
forum: "my mouse won't work"

however, if you want to post on your blog about the great response you saw on LQ, then yay!

forums != blogs

if you want to rant in your blog, do so. if you want to ask/answer a question, it's probably best done on the forum.

titanium_geek

EDIT: fora vrs blogs? I think they complement each other.

It's an interesting idea, but blogs and forums have completely different purposes and serve completely different audiences. More specifically, as a poster, I hope my words might help point a fellow LQ'er in the direction of a solution to the particular problem they're having, but given that the half-life on any technical advice is about 4 to 6 weeks, I have no expectation that my scribblings will have any lasting value.

OTOH, as a reader, if I'm trying to figure out how to get Kerberos to work correctly on a test-class server running Debian unstable, I don't really want to plow through a bunch of random blog comments about how the lettuce on someone's roast beef sandwich at lunch yesterday wasn't quite as fresh and crisp as they'd like it to be.

Both technical forums and blogs are useful, but they are not interchangeable, nor are they substitutes for one another. Besides, blogs can be discontinued by their maintainers just as easily as websites can be discontinued by their maintainers. Strictly my 2 cents -- J.W.

Perhaps I didn't quite make this clear - I mean to say that you can choose to post to both your blog and the forum at the same time.

Maybe I am the only one to have this problem, because I often post about ideas rather than problems. Comments?

Thanks,

Samsara
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I'm not sure that posting responses to threads via a blog would be either feasable or desired but one possibility would be to allow trackbacks from blogs to threads.

ideas? this is a help forum. why are you posting ideas in a help forum?

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titanium_geek