Comments on: Blogs and Forums http://negative99.com/electrons/blogs-and-forums/ An onslaught of expository excellence covering web design and development, politics and current events, faith and religion, guitar and music, programming... oh, and anything else. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:54:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: IanW http://negative99.com/electrons/blogs-and-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-338991 IanW Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:04:39 +0000 http://www.negative99.com/archive/144#comment-338991 I like your well described distinctions between a blog and a forum because like you I think they often get confused. I have used and interacted with both for a number of years now. And I have noted that returning to a blog to try and find a specific item is difficult unless you have some idea of the date it was written or the blog has a good category structure. Even if you can search the blog site you do not always find what you are looking for. A forum on the other hand usually has a relevant thread that you can remember which immediately reduces the search span. And if you have made a contribution to the thread you can look for your contribution as well. I generally find that forums are also more focused on a the matter at hand rather than the wider ranging nature of some blogs which also makes it helpful. I like your well described distinctions between a blog and a forum because like you I think they often get confused. I have used and interacted with both for a number of years now.

And I have noted that returning to a blog to try and find a specific item is difficult unless you have some idea of the date it was written or the blog has a good category structure. Even if you can search the blog site you do not always find what you are looking for.

A forum on the other hand usually has a relevant thread that you can remember which immediately reduces the search span. And if you have made a contribution to the thread you can look for your contribution as well.

I generally find that forums are also more focused on a the matter at hand rather than the wider ranging nature of some blogs which also makes it helpful.

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]]> By: AlbertoDeKosta http://negative99.com/electrons/blogs-and-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-147613 AlbertoDeKosta Sun, 17 May 2009 23:31:03 +0000 http://www.negative99.com/archive/144#comment-147613 Sorry, wrong topic. :ups: Sorry, wrong topic. :ups:

]]> By: WarAxe http://negative99.com/electrons/blogs-and-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-523 WarAxe Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:58:04 +0000 http://www.negative99.com/archive/144#comment-523 Some good insights, petit. After so many good WordPress.org discussions is great to see you here! :-) What you say about forums vs. blogs is also echoed in various online literature and programming references. And I'm feeling your pain on finding an appropriate way to display time independent material. I just went through this recently... I had been using WordPress "pages", but it just didn't feel like a seamless and properly abstracted method. I have settled, for the time being, with having special category archive pages that only SEEM to be pages, but are really just archived main content. My Projects, Flash, and WP-Themes pages are all like that. The user really sees them as seperate and easily accessible content, despite the age of the posts, but really that is just some php programming functionality where I leverage their post category, some conditional sidebar logic (for customized navigation), and some really good plugins. :-) Thanks for stoppin' by! Some good insights, petit. After so many good WordPress.org discussions is great to see you here! :-)

What you say about forums vs. blogs is also echoed in various online literature and programming references. And I’m feeling your pain on finding an appropriate way to display time independent material. I just went through this recently… I had been using WordPress “pages”, but it just didn’t feel like a seamless and properly abstracted method.

I have settled, for the time being, with having special category archive pages that only SEEM to be pages, but are really just archived main content. My Projects, Flash, and WP-Themes pages are all like that. The user really sees them as seperate and easily accessible content, despite the age of the posts, but really that is just some php programming functionality where I leverage their post category, some conditional sidebar logic (for customized navigation), and some really good plugins. :-)

Thanks for stoppin’ by!

]]> By: Petit http://negative99.com/electrons/blogs-and-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-522 Petit Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:30:56 +0000 http://www.negative99.com/archive/144#comment-522 I give my full support to your opinion that forum software is not blogging software. It's certainly true that WordPress could be rewritten to act as a blog, and I guess that a whole lot more than the database abstraction layer could be reused. That said, the notion of dedicated threads is hard to find in blogs. They are by nature a day to day log or diary if you will, and are more like the daily news paper, where the new stuff quickly sinks into history and oblivion. And this is really a problem for many of us, who are used to writing instructions and tutorials, as useful in a year as they are today. Many blogger use blogging software for this purpose, which means that in WordPress we often resort to Pages, to make articles time independent. Solutions for the really good mix will certainly come and quite a few bloggers experiment with combining blogging and forum software to get the best of the two worlds. Good article, thanks! I give my full support to your opinion that forum software is not blogging software. It’s certainly true that WordPress could be rewritten to act as a blog, and I guess that a whole lot more than the database abstraction layer could be reused.
That said, the notion of dedicated threads is hard to find in blogs. They are by nature a day to day log or diary if you will, and are more like the daily news paper, where the new stuff quickly sinks into history and oblivion.
And this is really a problem for many of us, who are used to writing instructions and tutorials, as useful in a year as they are today. Many blogger use blogging software for this purpose, which means that in WordPress we often resort to Pages, to make articles time independent. Solutions for the really good mix will certainly come and quite a few bloggers experiment with combining blogging and forum software to get the best of the two worlds.
Good article, thanks!

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