Phillip Pearson - Second p0st

tech notes and web hackery from the guy that brought you bzero, python community server, the blogging ecosystem, the new zealand coffee review and the internet topic exchange

2003-2-21

Auto-discoverability for topic servers

Ben Trott talks about improving the discoverability of topic servers like the Topic Exchange, and suggests two possible methods for Movable Type:

1) MT could contact the ITE and get it to suggest a topic for each post that people make.

2) MT could cache a list of topics and let people choose to associate their posts with them

I like #2, and it's how Georg's PyDS blogging tool does it. It's how [[liveTopics]] does it (or will, once we sort everything out and everyone gets some more spare time). Hmm ...