Motet is a
web conferencing software product created by
Bryan Higgins.
Motet features a
nonthreaded,
topic-based interface, with the site divided into seperate,
hosted conferences, each containing topics that can be started by users or hosts. Users can hide, reveal, or delete their
posts, but cannot modify them. Hosts have the same abilities.
The strengths of Motet are
- The ability to show any number of posts in a particular topic
- The compartmentalization of the conference/topic structure, allowing people to easily and automatically ignore that which does not interest them
The Weaknesses include
- The inability to edit posts for spelling and factual errors
- The moderation, which is designed to support a hostly hierarchy and does not allow any equivalent of voting.
It is used by several large sites such as the
Utne Reader's
Utne Cafe, the
San Francisco Chronicle's
Gate, Poets and Writers Magazine's
Speakeasy, and
Neopoeia.
I thought long and hard before noding this. To some it may appear to be an attempt to spam E2. If that is the final judgement of the Hivemind, I will abide quietly. However, the Everything Engine and Motet represent two totally different ways to perform essentially the same function, and it seems to me, as an inhabitant of both systems, to be important to discuss the differences.