I like what you've done with the final product and have always thought about doing something similar myself, particularly after I saw what Martin Fenner (https://plus.google.com/106537123721037364937/posts) did with his site at http://blog.martinfenner.org/ which actually allows others to make changes to it via github. Naturally, I'm also highly interested in his take on scholarly communication too, which makes me want to delve in there even more.

Another thing I've been playing around with lately has been some tools/toys at http://indiewebcamp.com primarily within WordPress (I noticed you had one at http://teaching.proftalbert.com/, so you're at least somewhat familiar) though also a bit with http://withknown.com which is a platform built specifically with education in mind (https://withknown.com/education/).

A large part of their philosophy is to own one's own data and then syndicate it out to other social media/external site, but some of their infrastructure allows one to easily make posts on one's own page which then act as replies on another's site. This is particularly interesting from the viewpoint of teaching wherein students and professors can interact with each other, but still have/own all of their individual work. (Incidentally, it also makes for using one's own site as a commonplace book of sorts, which I often find valuable.)

As an exmple, you'll notice on the post on my blog http://boffosocko.com/2015/05/21/category-theory-anyone/ got automatically syndicated to Google+ the other day. Then you replied to it within Google+ but my site sucked your comment back into the comments section on my original blog post, thereby keeping the conversation on my site and not only just on Google's.

I've been doing something similar myself, particularly given the number of social media outlets to which one can publish. To solve part of the problem, I've been attempting to utilize the tenets of the Indie Web (http://indiewebcamp.com/) as well as several of their projects including WordPress and WithKnown. Perhaps some of the material you'll find there will help you to hone what you're trying to accomplish in your "project." One of my favorite portions is being able to publish everything in one place and then syndicate it everywhere else that makes sense as well as to give it the broadest reach. Having a handful of sources like Twitter and Facebook feed back into the comments is pretty nice as well. I've written a tad about it at http://www.boffosocko.com as well. Perhaps you might keep your WordPress blog as a primary hub and then cross-post the appropriate material here to take advantage of your audience?

Just noticed via @benborges_ that @dshanske has a semantic markup plugin for @WordPress under way! https://github.com/dshanske/wp-semantics #IndieWebCamp

Dan, since you're primarily on WordPress, if you weren't already, you might like to be aware that most of the principles behind WithKnown stem from the indieweb movement. You can find some information specific to WordPress at https://indiewebcamp.com/Getting_Started_on_WordPress.

Most of the field of plugins specific to WordPress can be found by installing the base plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/indieweb/installation/ which will give you a simple interface for installing the others you'll need to plug in to get functionality similar to WithKnown. Perhaps this might give you the best of both worlds?

I'm impressed that @cstanhope has an .html-only #IndieWeb site: http://charles.stanho.pe/

I'll offer help to get him set up with WordPress if he wants something a bit more dynamic: http://indiewebcamp.com/Getting_Started_on_WordPress

Interested in @IndieWebCamp? A meta-list compiled from a dozen other sorter lists: https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich/lists/indiewebcamp1 #IndieWeb #IndieWebCamp