Comments on: The Topic Maps Community http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2008/the-topic-maps-community/ Trond Pettersen on Web Development and Topic Maps Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:22:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Trond http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2008/the-topic-maps-community/comment-page-1/#comment-2572 Trond Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:01:05 +0000 http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/?p=163#comment-2572 @Lars Marius: Well, there is one use for mail and there is one use for forums. One thing with mailing lists, is that threads die fast. Mailing lists are also awkward to search - let alone browse. In other words, <strong>the information is less accessible</strong> -- especially to people that are not part of the community (people searching the web for information on Topic Maps, for example). Of course mailing lists have their usages, and as you say, most communities use these too. It's not like I don't like or use my e-mail, or subscribe to mailing lists. There's one use for discussion forums, there's one use for wikis, there's one use for blogs and there's one use for mailing lists (I guess my wording was a little bad/easily misinterpreted ("communication fora")). Also, most discussion forums of today offer RSS-feeds per forum, topic, etc., just like for example blogs ... so there goes your need to visit them every day ;) (Or maybe we should start using the Fido net ... I heard it's great :p) @Lars Marius: Well, there is one use for mail and there is one use for forums. One thing with mailing lists, is that threads die fast. Mailing lists are also awkward to search – let alone browse. In other words, the information is less accessible — especially to people that are not part of the community (people searching the web for information on Topic Maps, for example).

Of course mailing lists have their usages, and as you say, most communities use these too. It’s not like I don’t like or use my e-mail, or subscribe to mailing lists.

There’s one use for discussion forums, there’s one use for wikis, there’s one use for blogs and there’s one use for mailing lists (I guess my wording was a little bad/easily misinterpreted (“communication fora”)). Also, most discussion forums of today offer RSS-feeds per forum, topic, etc., just like for example blogs … so there goes your need to visit them every day ;)

(Or maybe we should start using the Fido net … I heard it’s great :p)

]]> By: Lars Marius Garshol http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2008/the-topic-maps-community/comment-page-1/#comment-2567 Lars Marius Garshol Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:09:16 +0000 http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/?p=163#comment-2567 Why would you want a web-based forum instead of email? This really baffles me. That's like replacing a car with a donkey cart. Web-based forums are clumsy and awkward, requiring you to go seek them out regularly. And it's not true that people have stopped using mailing lists. For one thing, pretty much all serious open source projects rely on them. Web-based forums may be newer, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are better. I could expand on this, for example by developing the donkey cart analogy further, but I don't think I will... :-) Why would you want a web-based forum instead of email? This really baffles me. That’s like replacing a car with a donkey cart. Web-based forums are clumsy and awkward, requiring you to go seek them out regularly. And it’s not true that people have stopped using mailing lists. For one thing, pretty much all serious open source projects rely on them. Web-based forums may be newer, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are better.

I could expand on this, for example by developing the donkey cart analogy further, but I don’t think I will… :-)

]]> By: Trond http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2008/the-topic-maps-community/comment-page-1/#comment-2542 Trond Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:09:40 +0000 http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/?p=163#comment-2542 Good news. Hehe :) I'll make sure to register and try to be more than a lurker. Good news. Hehe :)
I’ll make sure to register and try to be more than a lurker.

]]> By: Inge Henriksen http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2008/the-topic-maps-community/comment-page-1/#comment-2540 Inge Henriksen Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:45:15 +0000 http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/?p=163#comment-2540 Now I have added a PHPBB forum on a server I have. It will probably take some hours before the domain is copied to DNS's everywhere, but when it is visit http://www.subjectlayer.com I worry that no one will post there and that it will die a silent death, my experience with topic maps is that most people are too busy to take time out and contribute to the community, but we will see :) Kind regards, Inge. Now I have added a PHPBB forum on a server I have. It will probably take some hours before the domain is copied to DNS’s everywhere, but when it is visit http://www.subjectlayer.com

I worry that no one will post there and that it will die a silent death, my experience with topic maps is that most people are too busy to take time out and contribute to the community, but we will see :)

Kind regards,
Inge.

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