Should I worry about the effect on zIWeThey's mighty [link|http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/1/19/35627/2443|PageRank]?!?

;-)

Never mind, I know nothing much about blogging and have never "trackbacked" anything. So many of the blogs I've come across have been so awful to read (the lack of comment threading is a real problem on them IMO) that I haven't bothered to learn the terminology.

Thanks for taking the time for the summary. I'm looking, off and on, for something simple to allow collaboration at work on some projects without the overhead of overworked and undertimed people having to learn HTML, etc. E-mailing .DOC and .PPT and .XLS files back and forth, or using a shared directory as a dumping ground gets old after a while. Maybe we'll advance to the 1990s one of these days...

I'll check out b2e and some of the add-ons you mentioned. Gracias!

Cheers,
Scott.

Talk with edits going everywhere like a text whiteboard or something. It's a little disconcerting actually. :-)

It's a neat idea, and having something like that would probably be handy, but it seems very young and is just a text editor at the moment.

What I envision is something that lets multiple users paste in bitmaps, have formatted text, have spreadsheet widgets, have access to database information, and print nicely, all without having to spend days learning how to use it. In other words, a true multi-user hyperdocument office system. Something that's also extensible to add, say, mathematics packages, e-mail broadcasts or notifications of updates, calendaring, threaded discussion, etc. (Lotus Notes was supposed to be something like that, wasn't it?) I'm not asking for too much, am I? ;-)

Thanks for the pointers to bBlog and the others:

bBlog claims to have threaded comments by default, but, e.g., [link|http://www.bblog.com/viewtopic.php?t=1079|this] doesn't look threaded to me. :-/

[link|http://www.s9y.org/1.html|Serendipity]'s site seems very sluggish. [link|http://ethicalmajority.com/archives/1-Welcome.html#comments|This] is a Serendipity blog with some comments. They do seem to be threaded OK, but it also seems to be very sluggish.

I looked briefly at [link|http://www.spip.net/en_article2009.html|SPIP], but wasn't able to find a site with comments.

It bothers me that something as basic as threaded discussion, something that was worked out about 20 years ago on USENET (with TRN), seems so foreign on so much of the blogging software. Oh well, it wouldn't be software if it wasn't reinvented, poorly, every few years. :-)

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Scott.