Monday, February 20, 2006

 

Blogging Notes & A Little Bit of History

Personal blog writing sure feels different from maintaining a news blog. It's like the difference between a reporter filing a report and a pundit writing a column -- its not just the content, but it's the content plus the author that's in focus.

I've always been interested in blogging and other kinds of social networking software -- I wrote an open source news blog application called Squishdot a long long time ago, back when the RSS format was still in the sub-1.0 version.

It was one of the many Slashdot clones produced around that time. It's been maintained for several years now by Chris Withers, and the code base is probably showing its age :(.

There was a time when both Gnome and KDE used Squishdot for their respective community news sites. Gnome has moved on to other stuff, while KDE continues to use it.

Comments:
Dude, you were the one responsible for Squishdot? O_o;
Ack. I didn't know. Was on the list of stuff I was going to ask Jijo to evaluate... Oh well, but if you think it is already showing its age... Why not re-write the thing? :P I'd love to test it for you :D

(Currently, where I work we have PHP Cake + Pmwiki being integrated by one of the developers. I am not sure how it will turn out and I have been so excited in testing it and giving suggestions as social software especially for managing content, etc. is something I am interested in.)
 
Yep. I was. Its on my list of stuff to do. Except I'm pretty bad about doing any on that list :^( (see how updated my blog is? It's that bad :D)
 
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