Comments on: MyBlogLog: Community Catalyst (or, Planting The Seeds Of A Disruptive Thoughts Community) http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:15:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Fraser http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3474 Fraser Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:36:32 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3474 Yeah opt-in is definitely not the right solution and you're also right that faces don't cause, only exacerbate, the spoofing problem. If you're able to reach a certain size without this becoming a major issue I suspect a lot of the major blog providers will be more willing to open up aspects of their systems. Yeah opt-in is definitely not the right solution and you’re also right that faces don’t cause, only exacerbate, the spoofing problem.

If you’re able to reach a certain size without this becoming a major issue I suspect a lot of the major blog providers will be more willing to open up aspects of their systems.

]]> By: Fraser http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101127 Fraser Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:36:32 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101127 Yeah opt-in is definitely not the right solution and you're also right that faces don't cause, only exacerbate, the spoofing problem. If you're able to reach a certain size without this becoming a major issue I suspect a lot of the major blog providers will be more willing to open up aspects of their systems. Yeah opt-in is definitely not the right solution and you’re also right that faces don’t cause, only exacerbate, the spoofing problem. If you’re able to reach a certain size without this becoming a major issue I suspect a lot of the major blog providers will be more willing to open up aspects of their systems.

]]> By: Eric Marcoullier http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3472 Eric Marcoullier Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:55:09 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3472 Fraser -- it is a challenge, to say the least. The primary obstacle is that comments are an inherently insecure system. I can post something right now and say I'm you on most any blog on the web. And things like Typekey and OpenID, which are supposed to combat this, don't help because they're all opt-in. And who can blame them -- if you made all your commenters log in via OpenID, you'd have a fraction of the comments. We're certainly not ready to tackle that problem. Because it's a huge monster, it's going to require integration with every major blog provider, and they don't have any real reason to make it safer for people to operate outside their walled gardens. So yes, faces can exacerbate, but don't create, spoofing issues. Once we reach a certain size I hope we can help address some of the root causes. Fraser — it is a challenge, to say the least. The primary obstacle is that comments are an inherently insecure system. I can post something right now and say I’m you on most any blog on the web. And things like Typekey and OpenID, which are supposed to combat this, don’t help because they’re all opt-in. And who can blame them — if you made all your commenters log in via OpenID, you’d have a fraction of the comments.

We’re certainly not ready to tackle that problem. Because it’s a huge monster, it’s going to require integration with every major blog provider, and they don’t have any real reason to make it safer for people to operate outside their walled gardens. So yes, faces can exacerbate, but don’t create, spoofing issues. Once we reach a certain size I hope we can help address some of the root causes.

]]> By: Eric Marcoullier http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101126 Eric Marcoullier Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:55:09 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101126 Fraser -- it is a challenge, to say the least. The primary obstacle is that comments are an inherently insecure system. I can post something right now and say I'm you on most any blog on the web. And things like Typekey and OpenID, which are supposed to combat this, don't help because they're all opt-in. And who can blame them -- if you made all your commenters log in via OpenID, you'd have a fraction of the comments. We're certainly not ready to tackle that problem. Because it's a huge monster, it's going to require integration with every major blog provider, and they don't have any real reason to make it safer for people to operate outside their walled gardens. So yes, faces can exacerbate, but don't create, spoofing issues. Once we reach a certain size I hope we can help address some of the root causes. Fraser — it is a challenge, to say the least. The primary obstacle is that comments are an inherently insecure system. I can post something right now and say I’m you on most any blog on the web. And things like Typekey and OpenID, which are supposed to combat this, don’t help because they’re all opt-in. And who can blame them — if you made all your commenters log in via OpenID, you’d have a fraction of the comments. We’re certainly not ready to tackle that problem. Because it’s a huge monster, it’s going to require integration with every major blog provider, and they don’t have any real reason to make it safer for people to operate outside their walled gardens. So yes, faces can exacerbate, but don’t create, spoofing issues. Once we reach a certain size I hope we can help address some of the root causes.

]]> By: Howard http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3470 Howard Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:49:05 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3470 its cool and I am happy to here this stuff. Very exciting tool. its cool and I am happy to here this stuff. Very exciting tool.

]]> By: Howard http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101125 Howard Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:49:05 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101125 its cool and I am happy to here this stuff. Very exciting tool. its cool and I am happy to here this stuff. Very exciting tool.

]]> By: candice http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3463 candice Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:46:26 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3463 Awesome. Thanks y'all. Awesome. Thanks y’all.

]]> By: candice http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101124 candice Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:46:26 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101124 Awesome. Thanks y'all. Awesome. Thanks y’all.

]]> By: Fraser http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3462 Fraser Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:45:26 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3462 Hey Eric, thanks for the very quick fix. Impressive! So anyone who leaves a comment and url that has a photo linked to it in MyBlogLog has that photo show up? I didn't know that... interesting. Doesn't that have implications for lending credibility to spoofing, unless you know that photos are not directly linked to your MBL login? Hey Eric, thanks for the very quick fix. Impressive!

So anyone who leaves a comment and url that has a photo linked to it in MyBlogLog has that photo show up? I didn’t know that… interesting.

Doesn’t that have implications for lending credibility to spoofing, unless you know that photos are not directly linked to your MBL login?

]]> By: Eric Marcoullier http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3461 Eric Marcoullier Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:25:11 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3461 Fixed! And even though I said I wasn't going to post a followup, I want to clarify something for Candace. You don't need to be logged into MBL in order to have your picture show up -- the reason the picture didn't show up was because the URL from your comment didn't exactly match the URL you entered for it at MyBlogLog (the trailing URL got us). We want things to be easy. Transparent. Automatic. The goal is that you do the things you already do and now it just has additional value. Your picture shows up in comments. You join communities. And a lot more we're not quite ready to talk about yet ;) Please let us know whenever you feel like we're making you jump through hoops because those are the places where we're not doing our job well enough. Fixed!

And even though I said I wasn’t going to post a followup, I want to clarify something for Candace. You don’t need to be logged into MBL in order to have your picture show up — the reason the picture didn’t show up was because the URL from your comment didn’t exactly match the URL you entered for it at MyBlogLog (the trailing URL got us).

We want things to be easy. Transparent. Automatic. The goal is that you do the things you already do and now it just has additional value. Your picture shows up in comments. You join communities. And a lot more we’re not quite ready to talk about yet ;) Please let us know whenever you feel like we’re making you jump through hoops because those are the places where we’re not doing our job well enough.

]]> By: Eric Marcoullier http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3460 Eric Marcoullier Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:02:48 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3460 Candice and Fraser -- we're looking into why your picture isn't showing up on this page. I'll either post the reason it's not showing up when we know more, or your avatar will show up and I won't waste anyone's time with another post :) Candice and Fraser — we’re looking into why your picture isn’t showing up on this page. I’ll either post the reason it’s not showing up when we know more, or your avatar will show up and I won’t waste anyone’s time with another post :)

]]> By: Fraser http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101123 Fraser Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:45:26 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101123 Hey Eric, thanks for the very quick fix. Impressive! So anyone who leaves a comment and url that has a photo linked to it in MyBlogLog has that photo show up? I didn't know that... interesting. Doesn't that have implications for lending credibility to spoofing, unless you know that photos are not directly linked to your MBL login? Hey Eric, thanks for the very quick fix. Impressive! So anyone who leaves a comment and url that has a photo linked to it in MyBlogLog has that photo show up? I didn’t know that… interesting. Doesn’t that have implications for lending credibility to spoofing, unless you know that photos are not directly linked to your MBL login?

]]> By: Fraser http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3457 Fraser Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:36:25 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-3457 Hi Candace, I think that if you're already logged in the photo should automatically appear... but I see from the recent reader thing that you were just here and yet your comment has "add photo" beside it. Strange. Maybe the MyBlogLog guys have an idea - I'll let them know of the issue. Hi Candace, I think that if you’re already logged in the photo should automatically appear… but I see from the recent reader thing that you were just here and yet your comment has “add photo” beside it.

Strange.

Maybe the MyBlogLog guys have an idea - I’ll let them know of the issue.

]]> By: Eric Marcoullier http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101122 Eric Marcoullier Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:25:11 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101122 Fixed! And even though I said I wasn't going to post a followup, I want to clarify something for Candace. You don't need to be logged into MBL in order to have your picture show up -- the reason the picture didn't show up was because the URL from your comment didn't exactly match the URL you entered for it at MyBlogLog (the trailing URL got us). We want things to be easy. Transparent. Automatic. The goal is that you do the things you already do and now it just has additional value. Your picture shows up in comments. You join communities. And a lot more we're not quite ready to talk about yet ;) Please let us know whenever you feel like we're making you jump through hoops because those are the places where we're not doing our job well enough. Fixed! And even though I said I wasn’t going to post a followup, I want to clarify something for Candace. You don’t need to be logged into MBL in order to have your picture show up — the reason the picture didn’t show up was because the URL from your comment didn’t exactly match the URL you entered for it at MyBlogLog (the trailing URL got us). We want things to be easy. Transparent. Automatic. The goal is that you do the things you already do and now it just has additional value. Your picture shows up in comments. You join communities. And a lot more we’re not quite ready to talk about yet ;) Please let us know whenever you feel like we’re making you jump through hoops because those are the places where we’re not doing our job well enough.

]]> By: Eric Marcoullier http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101121 Eric Marcoullier Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:02:48 +0000 http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/08/28/mybloglog-community-catalyst-or-planting-the-seeds-of-a-disruptive-thoughts-community/#comment-101121 Candice and Fraser -- we're looking into why your picture isn't showing up on this page. I'll either post the reason it's not showing up when we know more, or your avatar will show up and I won't waste anyone's time with another post :) Candice and Fraser — we’re looking into why your picture isn’t showing up on this page. I’ll either post the reason it’s not showing up when we know more, or your avatar will show up and I won’t waste anyone’s time with another post :)

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