Friday, October 14, 2005
Postforms: On Posts, posters and readers
postforms
ACTION: to campaign, to solicit support or to support.
INTEREST: to draw attention to information.
DESIGN: to provide new ideas, to create.
OPINION: to express perspective, to evaluate, to give value to.
SHOUTRAGE: to expose faults in current system.
In order to stick to the idea of postform, all posts on postform will be labelled. Each corresponding label identifies the intention behind the creation of the particular post.
An ACTION post is one that is intended to solicit positive reaction from the reader. An example would be the starting of a campaign or the encouraging of a particular activity.
An INTEREST post is one that draws the attention of the reader to a news item or bit of information that might be useful for a current discussion or might trigger off a series of new posts.
A DESIGN post is where the person posting submits a new IDEA for evaluation. It is intended as a hypothesis which will be tested by the interaction of the contributors and comments of the readers.
An OPINION is a post that would not be suggesting anything new but will be evaluating or analysing an ACTION, an INTEREST or a DESIGN.
A SHOUTRAGE is a post that goes beyond an INTEREST. It is intended to expose the problems in (or as a result of) the current way of thinking in order that they may be worked upon and suggestions be proposed.
posters
The intention is to form a pool of bloggers who can post on their own blog with a link to the same post in postform. The idea is that postform will not detract from current bloggers activity but will be a point of convergence for certain discussions. These bloggers will be the main contributors of postform and their blogs will be the contributing blogs. The title of each post when copied in postform will be followed by a three letter identifier to show what type of post it is. (ACT, INT, DES, OPN, SHT).
readers
Readers without a blog of their own are encouraged to use the COMMENT facility.
The rest will form as the posts are added and bloggers keep coming.
