HW 16B-> explaining the 5 Pillars

I chose to focus on the five pillars of conversational software because they were something that i was confused about and wanted to research them a little better. The first one that Scoble mentions is the "ease of publishing", i thought this one was pretty easy to understand. The ease of publishing means that it is really easy to blog and to publish your work. Its basically just the click of a button and your published. The second pillar is 'discoverability'. Scoble states that " it helps with tags and pings that let services like PubSub and Feedster get on top of the blogosphere". So if i had to put it into my own words i would say that discoverability lets you discover everyone else's blogs and lets you see whats going on in the blogosphere. The third pillar is cross-site conversations. I think this is the part about blogging where you can see what people are writing back about your blogs. Scoble says this is "where i could see who was linking to me with trackbacks". The fourth Pillar is permalinking. When i typed permalinking into Google to see if i could get a definition a British blog popped up. The blog was called TopGold and it talked about permalinking and how you need to have feeds to have a blog. I guess permalinking enables users to click through directly to a review of interest. The last pillar that was mentioned was Syndication. Syndication is the sharing of content among different websites. Thats where the name RSS comes from, really simple syndication. Wikipedia states that RSS is a family of wed feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries.