by mk

Often when I post an article, I will include the author's name. I like to give credit where credit is due, and also it reminds me that an individual wrote the words that I am reading.

For some time, I have been contemplating if it would be worthwhile to include an author field on posts, and whether or not authors could be followed, just as users, tags, and domains. It might appear like this, where 'Venkatesh Rao' is the author:

I have considered that the author field might only be available when the the url field was not blank, but I am not sure if that is necessary. Of course, the author field would be optional.

We've talked about it a bit, but if you have any thoughts or ideas about it, I'd like to hear them.