Peer-to-peer Blogging
Posted by Y Ddraig Wen Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:10:00 GMT
The phrase above was coined by my other half but the idea was one we jointly came to through discussion. We're both used to LiveJournal and the idea of security settings and friends. While we both like the idea of having blogs hosted on our own domain we lose that aspect of LiveJournal. We can still watch other people's journals with RSS feeds and we can still comment on their journal with OpenID. But there doesn't seem to be anything out there that allows security settings like LiveJourna and even if there is our friends would need special logins for the site.
I was thinking about how you might get round this and I was thinking that OpenID would be ideal for authenticating some kind of blogging security/friends system. Or there could be a system like the Drupal CMS where you can create an account on one Drupal site and log into another. The problem with the Drupal idea is that it's dependent on everyone using the same blogging software. What would be better would be some kind of protocol - some addon to OpenID - that blogging platforms like LJ or Blogger, and blogging software like Typo and Mephisto, could use to allow a network of blogging friends.
I wish I was smart enough to come up with an idea how to do this, or connected enough to sell the idea to others. But for now it just sits here as a wish.
