Comments on: Should ProBlogger Add Forums? Poll of the Week

By: Shane - Inspiring your Success

Shane - Inspiring your Success — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:09:46 +0000

I can’t believe you do not have forum yet! I love forums and would definitely have one if Success Circuit was read as much as ProBlogger. If you do decide to have one, if you need my help just contact me… I have a lot of experience.

By: Free IPhone swf

Free IPhone swf — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:46:34 +0000

Awesome man.. was it hard to get this site setup?

By: Jenny Barnes

Jenny Barnes — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:24:04 +0000

I don’t know how you forgot about Gary Conn. Tell everyone to unsubscribe to your blog and make 20 posts a day thereafter about random shit to get more clicks to the teet he sucks on aka Hostgator.
http://bestgiftsher.com/ringtones/ring-tones.html

By: cyaniddi

cyaniddi — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:19:46 +0000

The battle between investment activity in the internet and real world became enough tangible. I decided to broaden the subject and tell the beginners (making professionals thinking) about the differences and vice versa similarities between investment activity in the Internet and real world.

Simplicity. Effectiveness. Security. Perspective. Opportunities. That`s how we can outline the circle of the points, where the difference between two various investment worlds lies. In fact, investor, willing to deposit money, meets much more questions of the individual character.

By: lussigagas

lussigagas — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:49:30 +0000

300 is a great movie full of visual effects and graphics which made it different and much better.
Acting was great, director did a wonderful job and chose great actors, full of action, and it is based on a true story.

By: Chetan

Chetan — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:53:38 +0000

Actually i did not read all the comments in the page but am just answering to Darren’s question.

Forums for Problogger would be just really great.
This would become the greatest blogging discussion board.

By: dhd

dhd — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:54:24 +0000

yea

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ProBlogger Forum - Poll Results: Blog Tips at ProBlogger — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:54:50 +0000

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By: Peter Davis

Peter Davis — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:08:18 +0000

I just have to LoL at the mention of Drupal being a forum. That thing in Drupal that they call a forum, well let’s just say I don’t think they should be calling it that. Comparing it to a real forum system like vBulletin is like comparing a string and two cans to Skype. :D

By: hullabaloo

hullabaloo — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:28:14 +0000

Darren by placing the forums on a separate Host you also setup an alternate means of communication if for some reason your “Main” provider is asleep at the wheel. As for the difference between a Blog and Forum in a Forum “comments” are editable and refineable.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:15:19 +0000

I decided this needed an official blog entry. http://www.technosailor.com/internet-community-blogs-vs-forums/

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:27:21 +0000

As Darren plays the “color commentator” role. :)

I’d ask you to define, publically, your definition of blog and your definition of forum. :)

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:18:52 +0000

DOH!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:15:52 +0000

We agree to disagree :)

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:05:04 +0000

oooh – this could get interesting :-)

should I call in everyone to watch? hehe

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:40:02 +0000

No, Rachel, you have missed MY point. :) Blogs and forums, at the database level, ARE different. It’s that difference that makes a difference. Quite the opposite of what you have said, the difference is NOT at the presentation level because, as you have said, you can make a blog look like a forum or a forum look like a blog. That does not change what it is and what makes it what it is.

A blog is a blog because of the origin of the content and how discussion is conducted. It is very different from how a forum operates. They are different. And I’m not talking about presentation.

Trust me. I’ve done both extensively. I was an Advisor at SitePoint for 2 years. I’ve blogged for almost 2 years. I think I know what I’m talking about. :)

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:46:38 +0000

I think you’ve missed my point – at a database level, blogs and forums are no different. The difference lies in the presentation, interaction and purpose. Hence, software such as Drupal stores both forum and blog posts in the same database table. The point is, one shouldn’t have to install two separate systems to handle blogs and forums. Vanilla appears to be moving in this direction as well :)

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:18:38 +0000

@Rachel–

I read your post before seeing you link it here. While I agree with your basic premise that forums and blogs are identical in terms of content structure, let me disagreeably say you’ve missed the boat. In fact, the boat is halfway across the pond by now.

If you look at blogs and forums in the most simplistic sense, that of presentation, then yes the argument can be made that they are the same thing. Sure, you can drop a few plugins in and kermudjen the content to be more community based. Drop in a few guest bloggers or regular content editors for charity and you can call it a forum.

The reality is that structurally they are completely different. If you look solely at the entity of A site – blog, forum, news site, whatever – you’ll see two different main groups. Grassroots (remember, keeping the scope on the one site and not looking at broader topics like blogs and how they revolutionize journalism) and Centralized. Sites that have User-generated content (e.g forums and social networks) are grassroots. They are by the people, for the people. Sites that have a single (or confined) source of content are centralized (e.g blogs, news sites, camera review sites, etc).

They are not the same. If content is only defined as words, then yeah…blogs and forums are the same and mish-mashing display techniques can create one or the other. But content is not confined to words. It is also sources, histories, SME (Subject Matter Expertise) etc.

Therefore, you can dress your cat up like a dog and teach it to chase fire hydrants, but it will still be a cat.

By: nicob

nicob — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:03:57 +0000

You can find some free easy-to-use forums on http://www.stepwebz.com.

StepWebZ.com is also an online provider of services and content solutions for webmasters and bloggers, providing an array of simple tools allowing the addition and management of constantly updated news on blogs and websites.

They also provide tools allowing the addition, management and enhancement of extra useful features, like polls, search facilities, surveys and rating boxes on websites and blogs.

nico b

By: Mel from BU

Mel from BU — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:00:03 +0000

you take all the ProBloggers and I’ll take on everyone else ;)