An Image Is Worth A Thousand Blogs

Ovid on 2009-02-11T09:45:07

I can't even post an image here. It's not as if <img src="..."> is particularly novel technology. I'm tired of linking offsite just to show an inheritance hierarchy or a state machine graph.


If Only...

davorg on 2009-02-11T13:22:27

Of only there were a modern Perl blogging platform :-)

Re:If Only...

Alias on 2009-02-12T00:00:45

... that everyone collectively used.

The value in use.perl is not the blogging platform, it's that a big percentage of everyone is here.

If we had an "official" blog.perl.org I imagine people would mass-migrate fairly quickly.

Re:If Only...

stu42j on 2009-02-12T15:35:40

Perhaps blog.perl.org could be redirected to: perl.groups.vox.com

Re:If Only...

Aristotle on 2009-02-12T23:08:09

I disagree. I think the value of the centralisation lies in one thing and one thing only: centralised commenting.

Otherwise, a Planet would work equally as well.

In fact I would nowadays personally prefer if the people who keep use.perl journals actually all had their own weblogs, resulting in more diverse content. They might individually get link flow for Perl-related but not Perl-centric content that is currently lost to the rest of the world, because the Perl centricity of the typical Perl community venues tends to drive non-Perl people away. I read a lot of webloggers who develop mainly in Ruby – for all their non-Ruby-centric content. The reverse does not happen much because the Perl community tends to publish Perl-related content in Perl-centric venues, projecting an image of an echo chamber with no connection to the other dynamic language communities, whether outside-in or inside-out.

I would be more than willing to exchange some convenience for a stronger public image.

Re:If Only...

hex on 2009-02-17T00:43:10

Otherwise, a Planet would work equally as well.

Obligatory plug for Perlsphere! :)