Perl Blogs Engines
Blogs is a development that reminds me Usenet groups but some
additional capabilities due to GUI interface. Another similar category is
Internet forum software which is closer to traditional Usenet forums. A blog is a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that
are arranged chronologically—like a what's new page or a journal. Quickly conjugated
to "Weblog," the shift of a space makes "we blog," and the shortened version is
"blog."
Despite the hype from bloggers and journalists about Weblogs becoming the new
media, it is nowhere near that level yet, and many information
professionals ignore the whole phenomena with few exceptions like Wikipedia.
But that's wrong as you also should consider the content
management angle. The software for creating wikies (and blogs)
is basic content management software, and it can fulfill purposes well beyond the
keeping of an online diary.
One important aspect of system administration that is sometimes overlooked
is keeping users informed. Most users like to know when there is new
functionality available or when resources are down or not available. Not only does
it make users happier to be kept informed, but it also can make your life easier
as well. The last thing you want to do when the central file server is down is reply
to users' questions about why they cannot get to their files. If you have trained
your users to look at a central location for status of the infrastructure first,
all you have to do after notification of a problem is post to this central place
that there is a problem. The notion of a blog has been around for centuries in the
form of diaries, but recently have had an explosion on the Internet. Many times
a blog is started as someone's personal journal or as a way to report news, but
blogs can be extremely useful for the sysadmin.
Mailing lists also are good for this and most of them have Web interface. Some
people, for instance your boss or VP of the company, might like to know what the
status is of things as they happen. These updates might not be suitable to send
out to everyone daily via e-mail. You could create yet another mailing list for
these notifications, but you also might consider a blog.
Wikipedia defined the blog as "a Web site in which journal entries are posted
on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order." the important
feature of the blog is that each entry has comments space and often accumulate with
time valuable comments on the content of the post.
Like email lists blogs can help a sysadmin give users an
up-to-the-minute status of what they are doing and what the state of the infrastructure
is. If you faithfully update your blog, you easily can look back on what
you have accomplished so you can make your case for that raise you have been hoping
for. It also will help you keep track of what your coworkers are doing. And, with
many blog software packages providing RSS feeds, users can subscribe to the blog
and be notified when there are new posts.
It has become the "in" technology of the moment on the Net. While at first glance,
a blog may appear to be little more than an online diary of oft-uninteresting personal
opinion and seemingly random links, there is much more to the blogging world of
which the information professional should be aware.
Blogs are as varied and diverse as their creators. Typically, it is a Web
site with frequent, dated entries listed in reverse chronological
order. The entries have links and commentary and often an opportunity
for others to comment.
For typical layout check
Blogs of Note or
the Open Directory listings
[www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/] and try a few of interest.
The software automatically formats and posts the entry. It also automatically
archives older ones on separate pages. If categories are used in the creation of
entries, the software can also create subject-specific archives based on the keywords
used. The site design can be edited within the blog software using pre-defined settings
or more sophisticated redesigns.
And while the intent of the blogging software is
to create a Weblog, it can be used for many other content management needs.
Especially for those without a full content management system, the blog software
can be an opportunity to get more people involved in posting content on a Web site.
Use it for maintaining a news page, a What's New section, librarian's favorite books,
incoming titles, or any other periodically updated page. It can even be used for
more static sections on a site.
Weblogs are a fascinating Net development. They have been around for years. If,
like me, you have avoided or dismissed them in the past, take another look. With
the search capability and the content management capabilities of the blogging software,
new possibilities for both make them something to consider in a new light.
There are many block implementations. Among them
-
Blogger Blogger is one of the easiest Weblog tools available. It takes
about 5 minutes to sign up for a Blogger account, you get a tool for writing
your blog, space on the Blogger server if you need it, and built-in templates
so your pages have style right out of the box. With a subscription to Blogger
Pro, you get additional options like spell-checking, image posting, and title
fields.
Vendor's Site
-
Moveable Type Moveable Type is the blog I have chosen for my own use.
It is a publishing system that you run on your own Web server. It can be difficult
to install, but once you have it up and running, you'll find it fabulous. It
is a free (for non-commercial use) tool, with all the features you expect from
blogging software: templates, uploading images, publicity features, pre- and
post-date entries, and more.
Vendor's Site
-
Greymatter Greymatter is another blog that you host yourself. I favor
these types of tools because they are more secure with your passwords, and often
offer more flexibility. Greymatter lives up to this as "the original opensource
weblogging software". If you're looking for a no nonsense Weblog tool with lots
of features, this is where to start. I had it installed on my Web server in
about 30 minutes.
Vendor's Site
-
Radio Userland Radio has one thing that no other blog tool I reviewed
had - an actual desktop tool for creating your blog. Radio offers all the features
of your typical online Weblog, including promotion and linking, but the software
runs on your desktop. And if you need to post and you're away from your computer,
you can even use email to post a message to your blog. The cost is reasonable
for the feature set.
Vendor's Site
Using templates, you can post to the blog quickly and with minimal costs without
knowing HTML, CSS, or design. Blogs are one of the simplest examples of content
management, as they take basic content and do things like add HTML tags and hyperlink
URLs so you don't have to.
Blogs do have a downside. Blogging does not provide the functionality of web
pages, has limits for e-commerce solutions and can be time-consuming with regular
posts.
Examples of Business Blogs
-
Gizmodo is a weblog about everything about gadgets and gizmos for those
who want to remain on the cutting edge of consumer electronics. As a web magazine,
Gizmodo is quickly building a specialized audience in consumer electronics with
an advertising business model.
-
Research Buzz is an excellent resource tool for Internet research. An information
provider, Research Buzz provides advertising and a special paid edition of their
newsletter.
-
Joel on Software is a blog that displays Joel Spolsky's knowledge and views
on software development. The blog acts as a method for Joel to highlight his
expertise and promote his small business, Fog Creek Software.
-
Jupiter Research, a top business market research company has a blog for
each company analyst. The weblog provides analysts with the means to connect
with their audience on a regular basis.
-
Loosetooth.com Shop Blog, by Brandy Agerbeck, is an online art shop blog
that provide customers with a way to get to know the store owner. This blog
is an e-commerce site with buy and shop options.
-
MacroMedia the software company provides a customer service blog for users
and staff to share solutions in an organized fashion.
- 20080917 : NanoBlogger ( NanoBlogger, Sep 17, 2008 )
- 20080902 : wiki2xhtml 3.3 by Granjow
( wiki2xhtml 3.3 , Sep 2, 2008 )
- 20080902 : mowyw writes your websites ( mowyw writes your websites, )
- 20080902 : Two aphorisms and a few notes ( Two aphorisms and a few notes, )
- 20080130 : freshmeat.net Project details for nokjurnal ( freshmeat.net Project details for nokjurnal, Jan 30, 2008 )
- 20071227 : perl.com Blosxoms, Bryars and Blikis ( perl.com Blosxoms, Bryars and Blikis, Dec 27, 2007 )
- 20071225 : Blogs as data stores ( Blogs as data stores, Dec 25, 2007 )
- 20071225 : freshmeat.net Project details for My Blog ( freshmeat.net Project details for My Blog, )
- 20071225 : freshmeat.net Project details for 4ests Weblog ( freshmeat.net Project details for 4est's Weblog, )
- 20071225 : freshmeat.net Project details for MaBliki ( freshmeat.net Project details for MaBliki, )
- 20071225 : freshmeat.net Project details for WebGUI ( freshmeat.net Project details for WebGUI, )
NanoBlogger is a small Weblog engine written in bash.
It uses common Unix tools such as cat, grep, and sed to
create static HTML content. It's command line driven and
supports archiving by category, year, month, day, and
entry. It's designed to be modular, flexible, and
independent of external databases.
Release focus: Major feature enhancements
Changes:
This release brings a notable improvement over the
previous command line interface that debuted in 3.4 RC1,
and features a new command for creating articles and
three new modernly designed style sheets.
About: wiki2xhtml can create complete Web pages and uses a
clean XHTML syntax. It can insert galleries, a menu, a footer, and
nearly all elements you know from the Wikipedia. The pages are
formatted with CSS. All designs can be adjusted by hand, and custom
ones can be used as well. wiki2xhtml generates the HTML pages from
simple text files in the MediaWiki syntax. You can also use own (X)HTML
code or other script languages inside; there are no restrictions.
The GUI is composed of a Code Paste Window where you can insert wiki
code that will be generated live. A click into the result, the XHTML
code, copies it into the clipboard.
Changes: The code has been cleaned up and rewritten,
wiki2xhtml now works more reliably. The menu system has slightly
changed. Basic templates are supported.
Perl-based
Mowyw is an offline content management system, which means it is a kind of preprocessing
system specifically designed for Web sites. It uses a very simple, easy to learn
syntax, and is intended to be rather flexible. Headers and footers, includes
(like SSI includes), and menus are implemented, with more features planned.
Rough Type Nicholas Carr's Blog
Aphorism #1: To a man with a blog, everything looks like fodder.Geert
Lovink ends his 2006 essay
Blogging, the nihilist impulse with this remarkable paragraph:
Can we talk of a "fear of media freedom"? It is too easy
to say that there is freedom of speech and that blogs materialize this
right. The aim of radical freedom, one could argue, is to create autonomy
and overcome the dominance of media corporations and state control and
to no longer be bothered by "their" channels. Most blogs show an opposite
tendency. The obsession with news factoids borders [on] the extreme.
Instead of selective appropriation, there is over-identification and
straight out addiction, in particular to the speed of real-time reporting.
Like Erich Fromm (author of Fear of Freedom), we could read this
as "a psychological problem" because existing information is simply
reproduced and in a public act of internalization. Lists of books that
still have to be read, a common feature on blogs, lead in the same direction.
According to Fromm, freedom has put us in an unbearable isolation. We
thus feel anxious and powerless. Either we escape into new dependencies
or realize a positive freedom that is based upon "the uniqueness and
individuality of man". "The right to express our thoughts means something
only if we are able to have thoughts of our own." The freedom from traditional
media monopolies leads to new bondages, in this case to the blog paradigm,
where there is little emphasis on positive freedom, on what to [do]
with the overwhelming functionality and the void of the empty, white
entry window. We do not hear enough about the tension between the individual
self and the "community", "swarms", and "mobs" that are supposed to
be part of the online environment. What we instead see happening on
the software side are daily improvements of ever more sophisticated
(quantitive) measuring and manipulation tools (in terms of inbound linking,
traffic, climbing higher on the Google ladder, etc.). Isn't the document
that stands out the one that is not embedded in existing contexts? Doesn't
the truthness lie in the unlinkable?
From this perspective, the blogosphere, and indeed the entire link-denominated
Web, is not a machine for exposing the truth but rather one for hiding
it. For Google, and for its users, the unlinkable does not just lack
value; it doesn't exist. The overriding goal, for bloggers and other
purveyors of online content, is the creation of the linkable, the link-worthy:
that which will immediately attract approval or disapproval, that which
is easily assimilated. Bloggers break the mass media bauble, then spend
all day in the nursery playing with the shards. Lovink guotes Baudrillard:
"If there was in the past an upward transcendence, there is today a
downward one. This is, in a sense, the second Fall of Man Heidegger
speaks of: the fall into banality, but this time without any possible
redemption."
A rephrasing: Does truth begin where the long tail ends?
Twitter is often referred to as a "micro-blogging platform," but
twittering seems more like antiblogging, or at least an escape - retreat?
- from blogging. Blogging is the soapbox in the park, the shout in the
street; Twitter is the whispering of a clique. You can easily see why
it's compelling, but you can just as easily see its essential creepiness.
(At least it's up-front about its creepiness, using the term "follower"
in place of the popular euphemism "friend.")
Aphorism #2: To a man with a Twitter account, every action is a pretext.
What are you doing? is the question Twitter asks you to answer.
But in the world of Twitter, there can be only one honest answer: I am twittering. Any other answer is a fib, a fabrication - a production.
As with other media of the self, Twitter makes the act subservient
to its expression. It turns us into observers of our own lives, and
not in the traditional sense of self-consciousness (watching with the
inner eye) but in the mass media sense (watching with the eye of the
producer). As the Observer Effect tells us, the act of observing the
act changes the act. So how does Twitter warp the lives of twitterers?
If truth lies in the unlinkable, does life lie in the untweetable?
Yet if Nietzsche's typewriter pushed him further into the aphoristic
mode and set the stage for some of his greatest works, might not Twitter
be an empty cage awaiting its resident genius? It's worth remembering,
in any case, one of Nietzsche's aphorisms: "Talking about oneself can
also be a means to conceal oneself." That's a tweet worth twittering.
Nokjurnal is a simple blog w]
freshmeat.net Project details for The Chronicle Blog Compiler
Really simple nicely written implementation that consists of
a single Perl script.
Chronicle is a simple tool that will convert a directory of simple text
files into a formatted and static HTML blog. In short, it compiles text
entries into pretty HTML, complete with support for tagged entries, and
RSS feeds.
Release focus: Minor bugfixes
Changes:
This release updates all included templates to be valid HTML. Small speed
optimizations allow a larger blog to be compiled more quickly.
Basic Blogging with Blosxom
When I finally decided that the world would benefit from hearing my internal
monologue, I naturally looked around for nice, simple blogging programs.
Blogs are, essentially, simple things, and so I didn't want all-singing,
all-dancing web-based database-backed content management systems. I knew
that if I were going to blog, it would have to be easy for me to do so,
and there's nothing easier than firing up a text editor in the next available
terminal window and doodling my thoughts into it.
Thankfully, Rael Dornfest
has the same sort of laziness as I, and created
Blosxom, a very simple
blogging tool, which simply reads a bunch of files from the file system,
finds the most recent and relevant, packages them up together, and sends
them at a browser. That was how I saw blogging.
Getting Blosxom up and running is, in keeping with the whole theme of
Blosxom, quite simple. You need to download the
blosxom
zip file, unpack it, drop the blosxom.cgi file in your
web server's cgi-bin directory, and then edit the first few lines of it
to tell it the name of your blog and where the entries will live, and you're
done.
Posting into the blog is just a matter of creating a file called
something.txt in the blog directory. It doesn't even matter
what the something is. All that matters is the first line of
the file, which becomes the title, and the rest, which becomes the story
in raw HTML:
First post!
<p> Today I set up a blosxom blog. It was really easy! </p>
You can then, if you like,
style your blog with custom header and footer files, CSS, custom HTML
for each blog post, and so on.
Sometimes weblogs are really just personal databases, but public.
I was talking with a friend
and for some reason we got on the subject of blogs. We both sometimes write
things in our weblogs so we can store the info. Instead of post-its on the
monitor, bookmarks in browsers, or to-do items in PDAs, we have blogs.
I already "blog for Google", which is the same thing as the old usenet practice
of posting a post about some problem I encountered and how I solved it.
These entries are not really for discussion,
but more for the archives so that the next poor soul can find it.
Randal Schwartz tells me this is how it was back in the day when he could
read all of usenet in a half-hour.
Someday, when we get our heads wrapped around unstructured data stores,
there may be Perl modules called DBI::bloxsom and DBI::PerlMonks to bring
together this stuff. Until then we have blogs and Google, and blogging about
blogs.
My Blog aims to be simple to
use while taking care of many advanced features for the user. This includes
automatically resizing pictures when uploaded, pagination of blog entries
as specified, and truncating and formatting of text as specified. The admin
chooses from posting via the secure online script
or via email, making blogging via camera phone possible.
The admin is emailed when visitors post comments.
Plugins for the My Photo Gallery
and My Calendar scripts are available, and the admin can write his own plugins.
The templating scheme is simple and compatible with all of the other scripts.
Visitors can also subscribe to email notification of new posts.
4est's Weblog has pseudo code, emoticons,
a censored word list, and time zone offset support with an option for a
multi-user interface. Security is provided through a password protected
post screen. You can enable or disable commenting.
Mabliki is a bliki (a cross between a blog
and a wiki) implementation that uses HTML::Mason. It allows
multiple blikis with a single installation and implements several wiki formating
options, including numbered and unnumbered lists, bold, italic, and monospace
fonts, code blocks, headlines, and mathematic formulas.
It is internationalized and themable, and includes three themes.
WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average business
users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable,
and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create
the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up
the time of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full discussion forum with
the functionality of phpBB or FUD Forum, plus events calendaring, a photo
gallery, a Web log (blog), FAQ and Link List management, and a very configurable
user privilege and profiling system.
Softpanorama Recommended
Also review my
Blog Software essay for links to other background resources and how to articles
on blogging, which I may later split off into a separate page.
I have added a few links here to dynamite articles that explain
"What is Weblogging", or what is some aspect of it. I tentatively plan
a later article that has just that stuff, but I not yet decided if I shall call
it "Blog Articles" or what. in all probability I shall want several separate
stories focusing on different aspects of the subject.
-
Amazon UK has a list of Blog Books.
-
Amazon USA has a list of Blog Books.
-
Biz Stone
book on Blogging = Genius Strategies
for Instant Web Content.
Major sections of the
book (there is a very impressive appendix)
-
Basic Blogging
-
Beyond the Basics
-
Style
-
Blog Money
-
Archives
-
Groups Teams multi-author and comments
-
Corporate Blogging
-
Search feature, e-mail subscription
-
Our voice, permalinks, auto text bookmarklet
-
increasing traffic to our blog
-
Power Blogging
-
News Aggregation and RSS (see
Understand Radio News Aggregation for how Al Mac feels that
this is like a different application or direction, that is a primary
reason to have
Blog Software, and it is inappropriate to place this as something
that is for advanced users only.)
-
Side blogs
-
e-mail blogging
-
alternative interfaces
-
site management
-
bloglets
-
other goodies
Mini review by Al Macintyre
-
My first impression of the book is that it has great
links, but the author, as a Blogger customer, seems insensitive to differences
between the vendors. He often explains how something is done for
some topic or other, using how it is done in Blogger, without making
the distinction that some other Weblogging software does this a different
way.
-
Thus, if your
Blog Software is something other than Blogger, and if you are a
newbie, this is not the primary book for you, because you might not
be advanced enough to see where the book is misleading. However,
if you are a Blogger customer, then this is a great book for you to
get.
-
Blog On: Building On Line Communities with Web Logs, by
Todd Stauffer.
-
Do not confuse this 360 page book with
Blog On! article by Rick Klau, that explains what Web Blogging is
all about, with brief introductions to Blogger, Moveable Type, Radio
Userland (see
Blog Software for my directory of what is out there), with links
to other folks also trying to explain this phenomena.
Major sections of the
book
-
What is a Weblog, choosing your weblog software and
server
-
Weblog Jargon section includes definitions and explanations
for (if any of this stuff a bit foggy in your mind then perhaps
worth spending the $30.00 for this book): CGI; ISP; Hosting;
HTML documents; Perl; PHP; SQL and MySQL; SSIs; Web server computer.
There's a lot of jargon I not see here, but then perhaps it not
needed for the target audience of the book. However, the jargon
collection is more representative than complete. I think this
is something that belongs in an Appendix with a url where to go
for jargon from each of the major
Blog Software since I think a lot is not relevant to all the
different kinds.
-
Using weblog - simple and some detail on Blogger, Live
Journal, Greymatter, Movable Type, pMachine, using a hosted weblog like
Radio Userland
-
Extending your weblog - writing, designing, tweaking,
add-ons
-
Publicising your weblog, and using weblogs in organizations
-
Internet resources for webloggers
Mini Review by Al Macintyre
-
Remember my gripe with Biz Stone, that he had sections
how to do this and that with Blogger vs. other
Blog Software and sections talking about Blogging in General, but
often in the latter he would say how do something that was relevant
to Blogger only, without so specifying it. Todd Stauffer is much
more sensitive to the differences between the vendor capability how
to. I list over 100 vendors in my
Blog Software directory, so we cannot expect any one author to be
aware of all nuances of all the different. It is evident that
unless a book is specifically for one particular one, or clearly stated
in somewhere about some bias, the readers can expect an author to have
more know-how than is reasonable.
-
I also have comments above within my praise, where this
or that could be a little better.
-
Blogging Software Roundup is a big article by John Hiler explaining
Blog Software Types.
-
Blogroots
has a directory of Blog Books, Hosting Services, Tools, and other resources.
-
Design for Community, by Derek M. Powazek.
-
James Garrett's
Elements of User Experience See down below, coming review from [Radio
Free Blogistan].
-
[Boing
Boing] QUOTE
GoogleHacks --
search engine tricks for everyone. GoogleHacks,
an O'Reilly book with 99+ interesting and productive things to do with Google
-- written by Tara "Researchbuzz"
Calishain. Link
Discuss (via
Raelity Bites)
UNQUOTE [Boing Boing Blog]
-
Lawyer's
Guide to Marketing on the Internet (2nd ed.) by Rick Klau has a section
on weblogs
-
Micro Content News has a list of Blog Books.
-
Micro Content
Weblogs
and Headline Syndication by Doug Kaye.
-
O'Reilly published
Essential Blogging, which uses a cluster of
authors familiar with each of several different Weblogging software.
Radio Userland was not too pleased with how they were presented by the book's
preview and organized
this discussion group about that book, to hopefully get some stuff fixed
in the final edition. The book includes: Blogger; Blosxom; Moveable
Type; Radio Userland. See down below, coming review from [Radio
Free Blogistan]. Here is
what O'Reilly says about this book, with links to info on the authors,
and a sample chapter, as featured in the Oct 11 Search Day at:
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd1011-news.html
-
O'Reilly also
published
Practical Blogging, whose write up sounds the same as what I have seen
about Essential Blogging. I suspect the title got renamed along the
way.
-
Running Weblogs with Slash, edited by Brian Aker and Dave Krieger.
-
We Blog, Publishing On Line with Weblogs, by Paul Baush, Matthew Haughley,
and Meg Hourihan, published by
Wiley. See down below, coming review from [Radio
Free Blogistan].
-
Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining your Blog,
by Rebecca Blood. See down below, coming review from [Radio
Free Blogistan].
-
Rebecca Blood's
Essay
Weblogs: A History and Perspective is a good introduction to where weblogs
came from and how they evolved.
-
Web Redesign by Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler.
-
We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Future, is reviewed by
[Sarah
at alterego]. She thinks it is more like a window into what weblogs
currently are today. See down below, coming review from [Radio
Free Blogistan].
[Radio
Free Blogistan] QUOTE
Adding to my
'to review' list. I got my copy of
We Blog from Amazon today, and I received Jesse James Garrett's
The Elements of User Experience, a beautifully designed explication
of his seminal
model of the same name. For reviewing purposes, though, I'm afraid these
go behind my reviews in progress (The Weblog Handbook, We've
Got Blog, and Essential Blogging.
UNQUOTE [Radio
Free Blogistan]
O'Reilly Network: Understanding Weblogs [Dec. 30, 2002]
You read 'em all the time, but what makes a weblog a weblog? And how can you
quickly jump in and start publishing your own? Wei Meng Lee shows you the blogging
ropes.
Context: ...weblogs tend to be technology-focused. But other weblog
sites, such as Boing Boing, or Brian Jepson's Radio Weblog, cover a wide
array of topics. On...
[December 30, 2002]
O'Reilly
Network: Help me add link type values to O'Reilly Developer weblog links [Jul.
02, 2003]
To links in your own weblog entries and to links in others' weblog entries!
Context: ...Developer weblog links Bob DuCharme Jul. 02, 2003 07:05
AM Permalink Print Email weblog link Discuss Blog this In an earlier...
[July 02, 2003]
ONJava.com: Building an Open Source J2EE Weblogger [Apr. 17, 2002]
Learn how David Johnson built a weblog application using XDoclet, the Castor
framework, Struts, and the Velocity code-generation engine.
Context: ...called webloggers: applications that make it easy for you to
maintain a weblog, also known as a blog -- a public diary where you link
to recent reading...
[April 17, 2002]
webservices.xml.com: A Weblog API For the Grassroots [Aug. 05, 2003]
In his latest column Rich Salz discusses the grassroots weblog API, variously
known as Atom and Echo , and makes substantive suggestions for how it should
be changed to use SOAP.
Context: ...A Weblog API For the Grassroots by Rich Salz August 05,
2003 Last month I looked at the Necho message format. I compared it to RSS,
its...
[August 05, 2003]
O'Reilly Network: What We're Doing When We Blog [Jun. 13, 2002]
Many journalists who write about the blogging phenomenon miss some of the key
elements of this medium. Meg Hourihan, a respected blogger herself, discusses
both the structure and the intent of weblogging ... just to set the record straight.
Context: ...we can observe the common ground all bloggers share -- the format.
The weblog format provides a framework for our universal blog experiences,
enabling...
[June 13, 2002]
O'Reilly
Network: bIPlog: Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog [Mar. 07, 2003]
Students from UC Berkeley's Computer Science, Law, School of Information Management
and Systems, and Journalism Schools have launched bIPlog -- a weblog covering
modern intellectual property issues. The weblog is the product of two months'
prepration...
Context: ...bIPlog: Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog Scot Hacker
Nov. 15, 2002 02:58 PM Permalink Print Email weblog link Blog this...
[March 07, 2003]
O'Reilly
Network: Weblog Journalism is Hard, and it Smells Funny [May. 28, 2002]
Sure, weblogs are great (I have one or two), but are they really going to bring
down the sinister ivory towers of big media? Maybe I was the only person left
to think so. Why'd I change my mind?
Context: ...Weblog Journalism is Hard, and it Smells Funny chromatic
May. 28, 2002 10:44 PM Permalink URL: http://www.microcontentnews.com/interviews/p2pj.htm...
[May 28, 2002]
O'Reilly Network: Blogging for Dollars: Giving Rise to the Professional Blogger
[Aug. 12, 2002]
What about the notion of paying people to blog for commercial sites covering
genre-specific content? By providing financial incentive for great bloggers
to publish, we remove economic constraints and enable them to devote their energies
full-time to ...
Context: ...Selecting and Using Weblog Tools By Cory Doctorow, Rael
Dornfest, J. Scott Johnson, Shelley Powers, Benjamin Trott, Mena G. Trott Table
of Contents...
[August 12, 2002]
O'Reilly
Network: Berkeley Hosts Weblog Panel [Mar. 07, 2003]
I'm currently participating in (doing tech support for and advising) a class
at Berkeley on intellectual property, using the weblog as a vehicle. As part
of the class, we're hosting a panel discussion titled Weblogs: Challenging Mass
Media and Society...
Context: ...Hosts Weblog Panel Scot Hacker Sep. 09, 2002 11:29 AM
Permalink URL: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/events/weblogs.html Print Email
weblog link...
[March 07, 2003]
O'Reilly
Network: Clickz Weblog Business Strategies Conference: Day 1 [Jun. 10, 2003]
I'm taking rolling notes from the Clickz Weblog Business Strategies Conference
and posting them. Interesting stuff.
Context: ...Clickz Weblog Business Strategies Conference: Day 1 Timothy
Appnel Jun. 09, 2003 06:57 AM Permalink Print Email weblog link Blog
this...
[June 10, 2003]
Weblog
Madness Roll Your Own
Steven's Weblog
knowledge
management
Easy Content
Management
Weblogs.Com Top-100
Links from Weblogs
Joel
on Software
What is Scripting News
Nothing ever really dies (Score:1)
by
$$$exy Gwen Stefani (654447) on Sunday March 02, @02:19PM (#5419654)
(http://slashdot.org/...n%20Stefani/journal/
| Last Journal:
Sunday March 02, @06:53PM) |
| There are companies that are still using very old, antiquated operating
systems and software. The reason is justifiable though -- they still
work for what they need them for.
I'm sure Dell's CIO was just stating that for Dell UNIX is dead, and
sure, he's probably right that Oracle+HP UX is more expensive than PostgreSQL+Linux
even though they can both do the same thing. No one would argue against
this.
I mean, just look at Slashdot. There are several other codebases for
dynamic websites that are now incredibly more complex than Slashdot's
own Slash code project. But they still use Slash code because it fits
their needs mostly, and porting it over to PostNuke or Scoop would be
a lot of unnecessary work.
So yeah, UNIX is dead in terms of new solutions. But somewhere, somehow,
there'll always be a VAX computer, or a COBOL program, or some other
very old legacy code that still works wonders, even today |
Serendipity Weblog System
Serendipity is a weblog/blog system, implemented
with
PHP. It is standards compliant, feature rich and open source (BSD
License).
Serendipity is constantly under active development,
with a team of talented developers trying to make the best PHP powered blog
on the net.
Serendipity has so far also proven 100% PHP5
compatible.
PostNuke is an open-source content management system written
in PHP and uses the MySQL database. PostNuke can be hosted on Linux, Unix,
Windows, and Macintosh OS X servers - as long as it runs PHP and MySQL,
it can run PostNuke! PostNuke provides developers and novices with an advanced
set of tools to create a customized user experience. PostNuke goes beyond
managing content, it provides you with the tools to manage a community!
PostNuke.com
-- Make It Your Choice!
PostNuke
Navigation
Society
Groupthink :
Two Party System
as Polyarchy :
Corruption of Regulators :
Bureaucracies :
Understanding Micromanagers
and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers :
Harvard Mafia :
Diplomatic Communication
: Surviving a Bad Performance
Review : Insufficient Retirement Funds as
Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime : PseudoScience :
Who Rules America :
Neoliberalism
: The Iron
Law of Oligarchy :
Libertarian Philosophy
Quotes
War and Peace
: Skeptical
Finance : John
Kenneth Galbraith :Talleyrand :
Oscar Wilde :
Otto Von Bismarck :
Keynes :
George Carlin :
Skeptics :
Propaganda : SE
quotes : Language Design and Programming Quotes :
Random IT-related quotes :
Somerset Maugham :
Marcus Aurelius :
Kurt Vonnegut :
Eric Hoffer :
Winston Churchill :
Napoleon Bonaparte :
Ambrose Bierce :
Bernard Shaw :
Mark Twain Quotes
Bulletin:
Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient
markets hypothesis :
Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 :
Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 :
Vol 23, No.10
(October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments :
Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 :
Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 :
Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan
(Win32/Crilock.A) :
Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers
as intelligence collection hubs :
Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 :
Inequality Bulletin, 2009 :
Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 :
Copyleft Problems
Bulletin, 2004 :
Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 :
Energy Bulletin, 2010 :
Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26,
No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult :
Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 :
Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification
of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05
(May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method :
Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law
History:
Fifty glorious years (1950-2000):
the triumph of the US computer engineering :
Donald Knuth : TAoCP
and its Influence of Computer Science : Richard Stallman
: Linus Torvalds :
Larry Wall :
John K. Ousterhout :
CTSS : Multix OS Unix
History : Unix shell history :
VI editor :
History of pipes concept :
Solaris : MS DOS
: Programming Languages History :
PL/1 : Simula 67 :
C :
History of GCC development :
Scripting Languages :
Perl history :
OS History : Mail :
DNS : SSH
: CPU Instruction Sets :
SPARC systems 1987-2006 :
Norton Commander :
Norton Utilities :
Norton Ghost :
Frontpage history :
Malware Defense History :
GNU Screen :
OSS early history
Classic books:
The Peter
Principle : Parkinson
Law : 1984 :
The Mythical Man-Month :
How to Solve It by George Polya :
The Art of Computer Programming :
The Elements of Programming Style :
The Unix Hater’s Handbook :
The Jargon file :
The True Believer :
Programming Pearls :
The Good Soldier Svejk :
The Power Elite
Most popular humor pages:
Manifest of the Softpanorama IT Slacker Society :
Ten Commandments
of the IT Slackers Society : Computer Humor Collection
: BSD Logo Story :
The Cuckoo's Egg :
IT Slang : C++ Humor
: ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT? :
The Perl Purity Test :
Object oriented programmers of all nations
: Financial Humor :
Financial Humor Bulletin,
2008 : Financial
Humor Bulletin, 2010 : The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related
Humor : Programming Language Humor :
Goldman Sachs related humor :
Greenspan humor : C Humor :
Scripting Humor :
Real Programmers Humor :
Web Humor : GPL-related Humor
: OFM Humor :
Politically Incorrect Humor :
IDS Humor :
"Linux Sucks" Humor : Russian
Musical Humor : Best Russian Programmer
Humor : Microsoft plans to buy Catholic Church
: Richard Stallman Related Humor :
Admin Humor : Perl-related
Humor : Linus Torvalds Related
humor : PseudoScience Related Humor :
Networking Humor :
Shell Humor :
Financial Humor Bulletin,
2011 : Financial
Humor Bulletin, 2012 :
Financial Humor Bulletin,
2013 : Java Humor : Software
Engineering Humor : Sun Solaris Related Humor :
Education Humor : IBM
Humor : Assembler-related Humor :
VIM Humor : Computer
Viruses Humor : Bright tomorrow is rescheduled
to a day after tomorrow : Classic Computer
Humor
The Last but not Least Technology is dominated by
two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand ~Archibald Putt.
Ph.D
Copyright © 1996-2021 by Softpanorama Society. www.softpanorama.org
was initially created as a service to the (now defunct) UN Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP)
without any remuneration. This document is an industrial compilation designed and created exclusively
for educational use and is distributed under the Softpanorama Content License.
Original materials copyright belong
to respective owners. Quotes are made for educational purposes only
in compliance with the fair use doctrine.
FAIR USE NOTICE This site contains
copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically
authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available
to advance understanding of computer science, IT technology, economic, scientific, and social
issues. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such
copyrighted material as provided by section 107 of the US Copyright Law according to which
such material can be distributed without profit exclusively for research and educational purposes.
This is a Spartan WHYFF (We Help You For Free)
site written by people for whom English is not a native language. Grammar and spelling errors should
be expected. The site contain some broken links as it develops like a living tree...
Disclaimer:
The statements, views and opinions presented on this web page are those of the author (or
referenced source) and are
not endorsed by, nor do they necessarily reflect, the opinions of the Softpanorama society. We do not warrant the correctness
of the information provided or its fitness for any purpose. The site uses AdSense so you need to be aware of Google privacy policy. You you do not want to be
tracked by Google please disable Javascript for this site. This site is perfectly usable without
Javascript.
Last modified:
July 07, 2020
