Over the weekend we’ve had two channels added to the new boards.ie Podcasts area: the Entertainment Review and the Current Affairs Review. Enjoy!
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I’m heading off now (a little later than anticipated) to see Kraftwerk et al. at the Electric Picnic. Will have a report when I return…
Also meeting my boards.ie co-founders tomorrow.
Wow, I was just talking to Stefan last week about setting up something similar to this TechCamp. Great minds think alike!
Basically, after spending July in San Francisco, and having attended so many techie events there, I wanted us to do something similar here.
I’ve added a TechCamp forum to boards.ie to ramp up the enthusiasm!
It popped into my head a few days ago that Technorati could do something very similar to their blog search engine for bulletin boards. How?
- Bulletin boards can provide RSS feeds of their content, on a per-forum basis. I’ve installed this functionality for phpBB and vBulletin, and there’s not that much to it.
- Bulletin board software usually has BBCode, or quick markup for inserting HTML into a discussion post. You then just have to add a BBCode markup item for “tags”.
For example,
[tag]{param}[/tag]
would get translated to:
Tag: <a target=_blank href="http://www.technorati.com/tags/{param}">{param}</a>
for use by Technorati (as long as the HTML is exported in the description / content chunk).
Once one set of bulletin board developers start implementing this and seeing the search benefits, you can bet the rest would cop on pretty quickly.
Of course, SIOC can also be used to express information about a bulletin board post more completely than RSS, and this tag information could form part of that.
Steve has put up an MP3 of my boards.ie interview on Anna Livia FM, and for those who can’t be bothered downloading and listening, here’s the transcript.
Joanna: Now, we’re just gonna have a quick chat with John Breslin who was one of the founders of boards.ie, which is one of Ireland’s largest discussion boards. Good morning John?
John: Good morning Joanna.
Joanna: How are you?
John: Not too bad now.
Joanna: Good stuff. Em, how did you come up with the… Ah, how did you start Boards?
John: Well, Boards kind of came about from a very small community of, am, computer gamers, that em, I set up in 1998, and basically the idea was that we had this gaming, eh, website, and we wanted to add a discussion forum to it. So we had about 50 members or so at that time…
Daniel: Yeah.
John: …and, am, it kind of grew from there.
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