Community sites are aggregations of people who are interested in what each other has to say.

I didn’t notice that the archive links on every post were actually permalinks (whether within the page or on a new page really doesn’t matter I guess, as long as you can point to a specific post).

I agree the best idea for topics is to let a vocabulary emerge within the group, something that evolves I guess.

This newsmastering system you have come up with could be done without the owners of the source blogs and del.icio.us user accounts even knowing
…all attributed to the power of RSS (passing around or helping yourself, to raw content, even manipulating it [ie. splicing, filtering]if you want, and then presenting it a new place).

So if we expose our content by having the RSS version, we are exposing our content to people to re-syndicate (not only for private reasons ie. a Personal RSS Reader, but for public portals)…I guess every website can have a copyright notice.

So the only thing missing in your experiment is comments and trackbacks for every permalink.

What do you think of this, see my post and the comments:
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/informatory-newsmastery/

Something I forgot to mention is that you can’t view all posts by the one source within the portal, as your source list on the sidebar doesn’t have hyperlinks (there are only links to the native site, and the native feed).

On every post I noticed you have the source link, and the original link. The source links goes to the blog homepage, and the original link goes to the native permalink.
If the post is from del.icio.us, the source goes to the del.icio.us user page, and the original link goes to the native permalink…you have covered all bases here, great stuff!

To end..

If you added a few features, like allowing comments and trackback for each post, and viewing all posts by one source this would truly be a hack of a multi-user blog system!

Thanks for the note. When you say you were denied posting a comment, do you mean on the community engine blog or the remix? I’ve been deluged by spam, so I wonder if my spam fighting is blocking legitimate commenters.

A few additional notes:

1. The monthly archives actually are permalinks, just permalinks within a page. I debated having a separate page and decided no because this was just meant to be a remix.

2. Full content is searchable. I’m wondering how we could use tags in that.

3. Tagging right now is just a union of what is in everyone’s blog. Tags are single words. I am hoping over time for convergence around some concepts. One way to help that is to get people aware of each others’ tags and start to use them conversationally. In other words, I’m looking for vocabulary convergence in tags with new vocabulary still popping up all the time.

4. I will post more about reblog’s role in the future.