Idea Day60: You Can Edit My Post, Now
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Actually, it’s just a concept, not that you can start to delete some of my boring ideas here…
I read a post from Fred Wilson’s blog, in which he disagreed that Marc Andreessen turns off the all the comments on his fast-growing blog. Fred insisted that the spirit of blogging is two way communication, etc, etc.
So, blogs = the best way of communication? To what extent? When I went through these lines, I ask myself, is this possible to have a wiki-blogging platform? Wow, I’m challenging the extreme level of free speach on blogs. Here is how it works:
If the blogger applies this function, every reader can edit posts (or maybe just part of a post) the author allowed to be edited. Of course there should be a version-control mechanism. For example, if you think my last idea sucks, you can modify it. If you find a mistake of my understanding of Spock.com, you can correct it. If you want to supplement a picture, a digram, or even a video at the end of the post, do it! The bottom line? The blog owner still retain the full administrative privileges, that means whenever he/she finds the edition ” unacceptable”, he/she can do any recovery, or even turn off the wiki-option on this specific post.
Did I cross the line? I’m not sure. At least if I can find a wordpress plug-in of “wikibloging (not co-authors)”, I will experiment this concept here!
For A-list bloggers? Sorry you probably can’t afford to revision the distorted posts every 2 minutes, but Mr. Fred Wilson, since you are a blog-conversation advocate, you should give it a try anyway!
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