Dimension | Group | Blogger | PbWiki | Frontpage Website | Docs |
MS Word-level formatting | no | no | no | yes | yes |
Lets readers comment or edit | yes | yes | yes | not easy | yes |
Lets users edit posts | yes | no | no | ||
Has community boundary | yes | no | for editing | no | yes |
Collects project-related emails together in one place | yes | no | |||
Has manager, co-owner, writer, editor, collaborator level | yes | yes | yes | not really | yes |
Has (bounded) community, reader, viewer level | yes | up to 100 readers | yes | no | no |
Public can request access to community | yes | no | yes | n/a | n/a |
Has universe level separate from community | no | yes | yes | yes | sort of, through publishing |
Can upload files | yes | no | yes | yes | yes |
Monday, October 13, 2008
Comparing Web 2.0 tools on different dimensions
Suppose i want to make a table that compares different web 2.0 tools with respect to a number of features or dimensions. Can I do that right here in my blog? No, formatting is too primitive. Of course, it does have a limited ability to insert html code. So perhaps I could use some htlml editor to generate the table, then copy the code into the blog post. I tried that, but the blog machine seems to understand only a subset of html. After much effort, I was able to generate the below, which is not great:
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Blogging is to general web sites as the old mainframe Adventure game is to video games. Blogging is very text-oriented in the sense that it is little more than Notepad. Why can't it be at MS Word level formatting abilities?
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