Comments on: The Giving Carnival Evolution

By: Paul Botts

Paul Botts — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:28:35 +0000

I like options 1 and 2 and would be glad to participate in either of them.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:03:10 +0000

How about inviting someone who does not blog to “meet the press” by having an interview or an essay published. Then, on a given day, others would be invited to comment and the noted author, would participate in the comment section for that one day. Even a busy person might agree to those terms.

The purpose would be to widen the conversation by including those “movers and shakers” who do not blog, for example, Walter Issacson or Adam Myerson from Aspen, or Bill Schambra from Hudson. Would they be willing to “meet the press” online?

Or, think of it as a call-in show, where the voices from the hinterlands are blog comments.

By: Holden

Holden — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:58:09 +0000

What we need to do is get all the conversations organized at one location. It’s too much of a pain to check 5 different blogs for comments.

Two ideas for doing this, one high-tech and one low-tech.

HIGH-TECH. Everything’s RSS, right? We just need one URL that uses the RSS of each post to display teh post, then the comment-RSS for that post to display the comments under it, then gives a “Respond” link that just takes you to the comment page for that post. A sidebar can show the most recently added comments across all the posts - so you have one place to follow the whole conversation. And this page itself can provide a feed. I don’t know how to do all of this, but I do know that it’s all easy. Just find someone who knows what they’re doing.

LOW TECH. Have the Carnival host manually copy-paste each post into a new thread on a central bulletin board (we can use vBulletin or YaBB or whatever). Then, encourage people to continue that dialogue on that single page, rather than on individual blogs. The downside relative to high-tech is that conversations happening on individual blogs won’t automatically show up on the central page - people will have to purposefully use the central page instead.

By: Lisa Kays

Lisa Kays — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:05:10 +0000

I really like options 1 and 2. I’m also wondering if there’s some sort of an option that could be similar to two, but consist of someone throwing out a question they’re perplexed by, the next person answering it from their perspective and then throwing out another question, and on down the line.

In any case, sounds like some great ideas regardless and I can’t wait to participate in whatever you come up with next!