{"id":187,"date":"2003-01-12T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2003-01-12T17:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2003-01-12T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2003-01-12T17:44:40","slug":"blogconversation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Blogconversation #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The topic-based model (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myelin.co.nz\/cgi-bin\/wcswiki.pl?RidiculouslyEasyGroupForming\">RidiculouslyEasyGroupForming<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quicktopic.com\/14\/H\/P96CAYje2yc\/p-1.-1\">BlogThreading<\/a> models have different strengths and weaknesses.<br \/>\nThey are both good, they aren&#8217;t the same.<br \/>\nTopics are great for aggregate blogs that assemble posts about coffee shops,  Austin events, or other specific subject.<br \/>\nThreadneedle is better for aggregating a human conversation, whose topic meanders under a named thread.<br \/>\nA topic-focused blog won&#8217;t get you a human conversation (that would be ai-complete). A human conversation won&#8217;t get you a subject-organized index (not without editing after the fact).<br \/>\n&#8211; Adina<br \/>\np.s.  Shelley writes a good summary of her progress and other developments in  BlogConversation tools <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.burningbird.net\/fires\/000817.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The topic-based model (RidiculouslyEasyGroupForming and the BlogThreading models have different strengths and weaknesses. They are both good, they aren&#8217;t the same. Topics are great for aggregate blogs that assemble posts about coffee shops, Austin events, or other specific subject. Threadneedle is better for aggregating a human conversation, whose topic meanders under a named thread. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blogconversation #2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-31","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}