Thursday, January 26, 2006
Community, Online Forum/Bulletin Board, Censors
I have a major overhaul planned for the direction and vision of this online journal/blog/opinion.
My plan is to keep it, but link it to a main directory of my liking (a website) and to add features in the website that can be accessed through the page here as well as on the website.
The website that I want to make will link to other addends like a bulletin board/forum that spawns from an article linked to by S'CAN-IRANIC in his post on Farid Pouya's Global Voices> Blogologue>Community based idea. I do think that it is a waste of time and patience if you are living in a third world country like Iran to continue to try (and often fail) to upload/view hundreds of frequented blogs and newsblogs daily on a 12/kbps internet speed connection and zapped censorship rules. I was tired and constantly fueling my hatred of the internet by the amount of time that I spent tapping my fingers waiting for a site to come up and finding it hasn't been updated and other mishaps. Why not take steps to eliminate the hassle and juggling of time wastedXenergy expelled for failed information retrieval and opt for online solutions that interconnect and or display the writings of agreed authors on a board/thread in simultaneous time and space, and also allow for comments and links, giving them personal space but in a way that would allow communities like Global Voices to expand in its sphere of influence geometrically...
I do have a few questions and notes;
Are forums/bulletin boards easily censored, can it be made to use search engines like Google boards, where the community could not be censored as easily?
There needs to be some consensus of authors, I can't be the only one writing and reading the forum/bulletin board
There is the webpage that links to Iranian blogs but that is heavily censored in Iran, so no good.
And it does show which blogs have been updated recently, but again, heavily censored page.
I think it would definitely reach out beyond the scope of the blog, allowing people to sign up as members and post articles/comments/links/webshots of their own to the more popular bloggers without forcing them to make and retain blogs of their own.
An excellent team of web designer/programmer monkeys would be required too...unless we find an already easy-use/apply server that hosts these types of communities..
My plan is to keep it, but link it to a main directory of my liking (a website) and to add features in the website that can be accessed through the page here as well as on the website.
The website that I want to make will link to other addends like a bulletin board/forum that spawns from an article linked to by S'CAN-IRANIC in his post on Farid Pouya's Global Voices> Blogologue>Community based idea. I do think that it is a waste of time and patience if you are living in a third world country like Iran to continue to try (and often fail) to upload/view hundreds of frequented blogs and newsblogs daily on a 12/kbps internet speed connection and zapped censorship rules. I was tired and constantly fueling my hatred of the internet by the amount of time that I spent tapping my fingers waiting for a site to come up and finding it hasn't been updated and other mishaps. Why not take steps to eliminate the hassle and juggling of time wastedXenergy expelled for failed information retrieval and opt for online solutions that interconnect and or display the writings of agreed authors on a board/thread in simultaneous time and space, and also allow for comments and links, giving them personal space but in a way that would allow communities like Global Voices to expand in its sphere of influence geometrically...
I do have a few questions and notes;
Are forums/bulletin boards easily censored, can it be made to use search engines like Google boards, where the community could not be censored as easily?
There needs to be some consensus of authors, I can't be the only one writing and reading the forum/bulletin board
There is the webpage that links to Iranian blogs but that is heavily censored in Iran, so no good.
And it does show which blogs have been updated recently, but again, heavily censored page.
I think it would definitely reach out beyond the scope of the blog, allowing people to sign up as members and post articles/comments/links/webshots of their own to the more popular bloggers without forcing them to make and retain blogs of their own.
An excellent team of web designer/programmer monkeys would be required too...unless we find an already easy-use/apply server that hosts these types of communities..
