Comments on: Skribit: Let Readers Tell Bloggers What to Write! http://www.belowthewind.com/2008/03/skribit-let-readers-tell-bloggers-what-to-write/ taking it one breeze at a time Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:14:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Nai Alastair http://www.belowthewind.com/2008/03/skribit-let-readers-tell-bloggers-what-to-write/#comment-14 Nai Alastair Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:36:01 +0000 http://www.belowthewind.com/2008/03/skribit-let-readers-tell-bloggers-what-to-write/#comment-14 @BigRobot: Yes, it works on Blogger. Check out their FAQ page http://skribit.com/faq @BigRobot: Yes, it works on Blogger. Check out their FAQ page http://skribit.com/faq

]]> By: BigRobot http://www.belowthewind.com/2008/03/skribit-let-readers-tell-bloggers-what-to-write/#comment-13 BigRobot Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:27:19 +0000 http://www.belowthewind.com/2008/03/skribit-let-readers-tell-bloggers-what-to-write/#comment-13 Hi guys very nice wiget. only hav 1 question to ask can i use it at blogger? Hi guys very nice wiget. only hav 1 question to ask can i use it at blogger?

]]> By: Nai Alastair http://www.belowthewind.com/2008/03/skribit-let-readers-tell-bloggers-what-to-write/#comment-12 Nai Alastair Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:31:16 +0000 http://www.belowthewind.com/2008/03/skribit-let-readers-tell-bloggers-what-to-write/#comment-12 Hey Paul. Thanks for dropping by. Yeah should have pointed to that article. Fixed that now. Anyways, good luck with your startup. Probably one day I could have the motivation to do something like you're doing now ;) Hey Paul. Thanks for dropping by. Yeah should have pointed to that article. Fixed that now. Anyways, good luck with your startup. Probably one day I could have the motivation to do something like you’re doing now ;)

]]> By: Paul Stamatiou http://www.belowthewind.com/2008/03/skribit-let-readers-tell-bloggers-what-to-write/#comment-11 Paul Stamatiou Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:49:47 +0000 http://www.belowthewind.com/2008/03/skribit-let-readers-tell-bloggers-what-to-write/#comment-11 Great post! In regards to the side note, my thoughts on widgets were highlighted in my "what is skribit" post: http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/11/23/what-is-skribit <blockquote>Some of you may find it quite ironic that I am behind a startup primarily dealing with a widget after I wrote that I am not a fan of blog widgets. Here’s my stance: widgets are worthless unless they provide real value. In this case, the value is the gained reader interaction. Comments are great for getting feedback on a particular topic or post, but Skribit aims to facilitate reader involvement over the entire blog and even direct where the blog’s content is headed. In return, blog authors will love Skribit for giving them ideas on what to write about... As for the general negative aspect of widgets, that they are slow to load and hinder the entire website’s performance, Skribit uses iframes at the moment, which do not mess up page loads should the widget fail to load for any reason. Down the line, I can see platform-specific plugins that communicate with Skribit every X minutes and store results in a local XML file</blockquote> Great post! In regards to the side note, my thoughts on widgets were highlighted in my “what is skribit” post:

http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/11/23/what-is-skribit

Some of you may find it quite ironic that I am behind a startup primarily dealing with a widget after I wrote that I am not a fan of blog widgets. Here’s my stance: widgets are worthless unless they provide real value. In this case, the value is the gained reader interaction. Comments are great for getting feedback on a particular topic or post, but Skribit aims to facilitate reader involvement over the entire blog and even direct where the blog’s content is headed. In return, blog authors will love Skribit for giving them ideas on what to write about…

As for the general negative aspect of widgets, that they are slow to load and hinder the entire website’s performance, Skribit uses iframes at the moment, which do not mess up page loads should the widget fail to load for any reason. Down the line, I can see platform-specific plugins that communicate with Skribit every X minutes and store results in a local XML file

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