HW 16-B: The Five Pillars

The Five Pillars of Conversational Software are “ease of publishing,” “discoverability,” “cross-site conversations,” “permalinking,” and “syndications.” Ease of publishing is making sure that a website is published easily so people can understand what the website is about and what it is trying to portray. Discoverability is making sure that people can find a certain website. Like Robert Scoble was saying people want to make sure they link their website to every place possible. This way people find the website off of bigger websites and check other stuff out. Discoverability will help websites get to the top of the photosphere Scoble says (Kline & Burstein 130). Cross-Site Conversations is when a website is linked to another website, or two or more websites are linked to other websites and they are conversing with each other. Scoble says he “could see who was linking to me with track backs, (Kline & Burstein 130). Permalinking is a made of word so it is hard to describe. Scoble says, “Permalinking is where I can isolate a URL that will take me directly to a post,” (Kline & Burstein 130). Last but not least the fifth pillar is “syndication” which is the last “S” in RSS. RSS stands for Really simple syndication. In the dictionary syndication is described as, “a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations,” (www.dictionary.com). Syndication makes it easier to look at a bunch of different websites. So instead of groups of people working together like said in the dictionary its more of websites working together so it is easier to look around and find different websites and blogs on the blogosphere.