hw16: five pillars

On page 130 of Kline and Bernstein’s "Blog!", there is an interview with Robert Scoble. One of the questions he is asked is about "RSS" and why it seems to be so important and how it will help the evolution of blogging. Robert goes on talking about the five things that have made blogging hot. He says that there are basically five pillars of conversational software. They include ease of publishing, discoverability, cross-site conversations, permalinking and finally syndication. It is to my understanding that the ease of publishing and discoverability most likely would mean how simple it is to start a blog about whatever you would like, and how easy it is for someone to discover your blog. Cross-site conversations most likely means that throughout the blog site, it is easy for people to talk about the different blogs they have read and start up new conversations and ideas for other blogs. Permalinking is simply just being able to place a link in a blog that will link the reader to that specific topic. And finally, syndication is to make multiple copies of that blog post or blog response. These five pillars help to describe the blogging world at its best.