OK, Blogger isn’t a good fit right now I don’t think. But neither is anything else out there really. pb made really good points about filtering and post templates, both things I’ve been thinking about with twine (also, about properties, and a model for restricting views [ie, can capabilities be applied to networked nodes [see E]).
It’s easy when working with these issues to completely scope out (at least that’s what I’ve found whenever I’ve had a chance to actually rub some neurons on it). My new take is to try to set concrete milestones, ant to also target very specific features, and then refactor as each feature requires so that it makes sense as a whole. In theory, at each step of the way you have something that does something at least marginally useful.
Ahh, hubris. Brainfart on goals for an advanced blogging system:
- Links (target URIs) as first class data structures; xref’able; obviously must be m:n; have aggregate properties
- Faceted, filtered entries
- Entry+Output customizable (or better yet, adapting)
- High level creation of custom data entry, behaviors
- Combining: journal, blog, linklog/bookmarks, outliner, knowledge base into single kspace
- Handling multimedia
- Personal aggregation (ie: things I’ve posted elsewhere)
- Collection of all the implicit metadata possible
- Smart parsing of sources, relationships
Of course, this development effort is sort of independent of having a decent blog. I’ll be trying to pull an overhaul that’ll link up some upcoming, del.icio.us, blo.gs, feed on feed functionality.