Hugo Things...

[daveon]

Some interesting ideas emerging on the other thread.  At some stage in the next couple of days I'll pull out some specific proposals so people can look at them.  I have noticed the Blogging community have, for the most part, been quiet on this topic.

Comments

[daveon.livejournal.com]

As a separate thought, and I think somebody else, maybe you made this point, there isn't something in the Blogging world that fills the role of LJ, where you can have public and private blogging with simple real-time update notifications...

[bovil.livejournal.com]

Livejournal is a blogging platform that was extended to have a social infrastructure. It's that simple. First it was multiple blog hosting, then it was blog following (friends) then it was multi-participant discussion (communities). It didn't get a lot of respect from roll-your-own bloggers, but it's just another tool. Now it's totally just another tool, with very few bloggers rolling their own solution but still looking down on LJ if they even know about it.

Where other tools fall flat on ongoing Hugo recommendations is:
1. Structure. FB, G+, Twitter and the other large-subscriber services don't provide a good structure to file (managed tagging) and search recommendations over time.
2. User base. There is no other structured service that already has a large number of fans participating. It would be possible to build a new service that took advantage of Google and/or Facebook identities, but it would be a new, standalone service that people would have to add to their sphere of interaction. And it would likely end up just being another web forum, even if it had tweaked interface and features.