Outside of any weblog/wiki items and their content (title/description/link/comments/etc.), what else is in the web page?
- Title of the site (weblog, wiki, etc.)
- Index, Random link, Help, Archives, Search
- Referals/backlinks
- Site counters & meters, awards
- Linkrolls -- friends/favorite sites (weblogs, wikis, news sources, etc., possibly with: ratings, recently updated sites highlighted) aka BlogRoll
- Recent changes of weblog/site/comments -- available by RssFeeds (see
RSS auto-discovery), e-mail (e.g. via BlogLet), sidebar (
Flutterby comments), &/or separate page (any wiki's RecentChanges), etc.
- Art/photography/logos/badges/comics/quotes
- login/out, username, other "present" users
- music i'm currently listening to
- user-selectable appearance ("skins")
- validation claims/checks
- authors' contact info
- geek and other codes
- upload files to site
- background music
- item/site ratings (by participants or those outside, e.g.
Bloghop)
- donation request (e.g. PayPal?)
- chat interface (
Blogchat)
- guest weblog
- stock quotes
- webrings
- webcams
- weather, phase of the moon, etc.
- ads
- link to software running site
Process, rather than content
In the middle of the decade now, it is becoming common for people to embed web service feeds of most if not all kinds in the list above from other websites that focus entirely that particular domain - linkrolls, DelIcioUs or Furl or...photos, Flickr, etc.
Some features are often only machine-visible - such as geographic location (lat/long - see Getty on MapLinks) HTML tags (see
Geotags,
Globe of Blogs), and AutoDiscoveryOfRssFeeds.
What's missing?