[pmwiki-users] Blog proposal

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:38:37PM +0100, Mikael Nilsson wrote:
> Overall a good proposal! I have a few comments below.
> 
> tor 2005-12-15 klockan 08:46 -0600 skrev Patrick R. Michaud:
> 
> > * Posting a blog entry is as simple as adding (:blog:) to the markup
> >   of any page.  When a page containing (:blog:) is saved, that page
> >   is automatically added to the blog trail page if it's not already
> >   listed.  (The author must have write permissions to the blog trail
> >   page.)
> 
> Well... do you really want that? I realize that you would like to know
> it's a blog post, but should you not use properties for this?
> 
> (:property type=blog:)
> 
> You don't lose anything, and it generalizes nicely :-).

It doesn't tell me what blog to post to, and it's too much
to type.  Adding blog entries is likely to be a frequent thing,
so it needs to have as little typing and be as unobtrusive
as possible.

> > * An author can use (:blog OtherBlogTrail:) to post the current page
> >   to blog trails other than the default.
> 
> Post to several blogs, too? That would be cool! Especially if you have
> group blogs, where some blog posts belong to several groups.

Yes, of course.  I'm not a believer in strict hierarchies.  :-)

Pm