HW#16 Option B: Five Pillars Of Conversational Software.

After Reading an interview with Robert Scovel in Klein and Burstein’s Blog book (124-134) we were asked to write a response explaining to the readers what exactly the five pillars of conversational software are. These are characteristics which he believes made blogging hot. The first pillar he calls is "the ease of publishing," What I think he means by this is its so easy to go online and create a blog and publish your own posts. The second is "discoverability," which he says is when you have tags and pings that let services like PubSub (pubsub.com) and Feedster (feedster.com) and Technorati (technorati.com) get on top of the blogoshpere. The third pillar of conversational software was "cross-site conversation," this is where you could see who was actually linking to the site by using trackbacks. I think this is good because you can see how many readers are coming to your site even if they are not leaving comments on your post. The fourth was "permalinking," this is where you can isolate a URL that will take you directly to a post. And the fifth is "syndication," syndication started in the 1990's, this is important because it allows you to watch a large number of sites at a time. Also you never have to give any information like an email address, and it just organized itself.