Re: Blogger Functions
Subject: Re: Blogger Functions
From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
Date: 8/13/10, 08:13
To: Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>
CC: tessig@me.com, Mano Singham <mano.singham@case.edu>, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

Comment by Clark: I am not sure we even want to be using the term widget any more: for me, this particular spasm of revising got started when I read a comment by Todd to the effect that widgets on web pages are sort of last-year's technology, and I thought yes, a talented game-designer may come up with a much more nifty box of on-screen tools to navigate the intellectual universe of the Project PM blogger network.  So maybe 'widget' is "too how."

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com> wrote:

Primary Push     After a Project PM member blogger/columnist/journalist (hereafter called Blogger) publishes a piece of writing to the web, he/she may relatively effortlessly choose to submit (hereafter called Push) a link using the Project PM widget specific to the published item (hereafter called a Post) to other Bloggers who agreed to receive such links (hereafter called Connections).


Connection            Bloggers can submit requests to other Bloggers to add them as a Connection. By agreeing to be Connected, Bloggers are affirming that they will review links and read Posts Pushed to them by the Connected Blogger and considers whether or not those Posts warrant further Pushing to their Connections. Another means of making a Connection, is for an existing Blogger to invite someone to join Project PM. Connections can be terminated at any time by either Connected Blogger. Proper notification to all relevant parties is necessary for Connection establishment and termination.


Other Pushes    Bloggers receiving a Push will receive a link to the Post in their Project PM widget and subsequent to reviewing the Post on the originating Blogger’s website, will be able to Push a link to the Post to their Connected Bloggers excluding the Post’s originator and those Bloggers who have already received a link to the Post via another Blogger’s Push.


Download          Existing Bloggers must be able to facilitate/initiate a download of Project PM widget by new Bloggers that they’ve established a Connection with so that the widget gets downloaded and installed on the new Blogger’s website and that the Push feature is activated for that Blogger. Also, Project PM widget on Bloggers’ websites must facilitate the download of software to readers’ computers so that they can more easily access reader functions. Finally, all software must be able to recognize if updated software exists.