david said:
>   BIRD: In the snippet below, you simply LINKED to a blog.

and in most cases, that will be quite good enough, thanks,
because people can then read the blog there, and comment.

but since you've brought it up, will these "blogs and forums"
that are "contained" within openreader e-books from osoft
be addressable by the general public using web-browsers?

or, like the current osoft thoutreader, will people need to use
that particular piece of software in order to view the comments?

a clear answer will tell us a lot about your attitude on "lock-in".


>   dotReader, OpenReader's first implementation, will
>   CONTAIN blogs and forums and make them readable
>   to users even when they're offlline.

it's not hard to implement that...

the app just downloads the content,
and saves it for offline presentation,
then uploading what is to be posted,
capabilities already included in many
r.s.s. readers and blogging software...

depending on if people actually use it,
it could end up being a neat technology,
much like all the other instantiations of it
i discussed in my earlier post in this thread.

my point was that it's not difficult to implement.

it's not.

so why are you hyping it like it's such a big deal?

-bowerbird