Oscar Trelles

Blog brainstorming: Discussion at Kevin Lynch’s blog.

It seems like Macromedians are interested in improving the experience of people running blogs. Here, you can read what Kevin Lynch and others have to say about the current platforms of choice for most bloggers, and ideas to make designing and maintaining blogs a smoother task. What follows is the comment I just posted there:
I don’t know how many people run their own blogging systems. I’m working on my own, after experimenting with Blogger for about 4 months, finding so many limitations and trying to solve some of them with my bare hands
I’m sure users of other platforms got their own issues, but they are more or less the same thing: incompatibility with existing technologies and lack of ‘advanced’ features. For instance, to know if somebody posts a comment here after mine, I will have to come back and see. I don’t have anything about coming back to Kevin’s page, but wouldn’t it be nice if I could subscribe to the thread and be notified by email when new comments are posted?
Although features like that are fairly easy to implement, from my point of view, the most important concern to address is the necessity of a ‘perfect’ separation between functionality, data and design. If components and templates can do the trick, they will be more than welcome. Macromedia has the means to provide their users with these commodities, although I’m sure I will be using them after tasting the power of a custom-made system.