Livejournal's recent decision to stop offering Ad-free blogs to new users has only made me more confident in my decision to switch to hosting my own blog
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Six Apart released a GPL version of Movable Type recently (http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/). I've downloaded it, but haven't tried to install it yet. WordPress is a disaster-stay far away.
My brother uses blosxom for his blog / site that I host. I think he's gotten a good look and feel, and he's not a web professional. Haven't tried PyBlosxom, but it should be similar.
If you're talking about the blogger's meetup at the Green Dragon, it appears to be tonight, not Friday?
Re: Blogging SWsahara_bearaMarch 19 2008, 21:09:04 UTC
Heh. Quoting from the sourceforge page: "PyBlosxom is a lightweight file-based weblog system. The project started as a Python clone of Blosxom but has since evolved into a beast of its own."
I looked on the beer and blog website, but I didn't see an update for their next meeting. They met last Friday (March 14th) at the Green Dragon.
I used blosxom for a while, the creator/maintainer is a Portland person. Unfortunately, I was using the package Debian installs and I didn't have it intelligently configured. Eventually after it blew away my blog for the nth time I gave up. Now I'm just using LiveJournal for text and Flickr for photo blogging.
I have found I don't read blogs that aren't on LJ - having a 'friends' page in one place really works for me, and unless I pay for a membership, I can't really export people's friends/filtered posts out of LJ and into an RSS reader - the really important stuff is always filtered. Would you consider autoposting your blog here as a service to those who have bought in to commercial 'free' (gratis) solutions?
Re: Blosxomsahara_bearaMarch 19 2008, 21:05:15 UTC
I will find a way to push my posts to livejournal (and possibily MySpace, since that's what my sister uses). Other people have pushed their blogs to LJ, so I know it's possible.
...unless I pay for a membership, I can't really export people's friends/filtered posts out of LJ and into an RSS reader...
I'm not sure what I'm going to do if I want to make posts friends-only with PyBlosxom. OpenID maybe? I might just post them here under a friends filter. I don't often post things I don't want public.
Movable Type FOSS; ikiwiki worth considering
anonymous
March 29 2008, 04:42:39 UTC
Movable Type went FOSS (GPLv2), so don't automatically rule it out for that reason. I know nothing about it past that, so don't take this as a recommendation either.
If you want to do more in Git, you might consider using ikiwiki for your blog. It does markdown which you want, and it can look really good with the right theme; see some of the blogs on Planet Debian that use ikiwiki for examples of good themes.
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My brother uses blosxom for his blog / site that I host. I think he's gotten a good look and feel, and he's not a web professional. Haven't tried PyBlosxom, but it should be similar.
If you're talking about the blogger's meetup at the Green Dragon, it appears to be tonight, not Friday?
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I looked on the beer and blog website, but I didn't see an update for their next meeting. They met last Friday (March 14th) at the Green Dragon.
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I have found I don't read blogs that aren't on LJ - having a 'friends' page in one place really works for me, and unless I pay for a membership, I can't really export people's friends/filtered posts out of LJ and into an RSS reader - the really important stuff is always filtered. Would you consider autoposting your blog here as a service to those who have bought in to commercial 'free' (gratis) solutions?
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...unless I pay for a membership, I can't really export people's friends/filtered posts out of LJ and into an RSS reader...
I'm pretty sure any LJ user can get friends only entries in an RSS reader by adding ?auth=digest to the end of the RSS URL (e.g. http://sahara-beara.livejournal.com/data/rss?auth=digest). Works fine in Akregator for me.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do if I want to make posts friends-only with PyBlosxom. OpenID maybe? I might just post them here under a friends filter. I don't often post things I don't want public.
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If you want to do more in Git, you might consider using ikiwiki for your blog. It does markdown which you want, and it can look really good with the right theme; see some of the blogs on Planet Debian that use ikiwiki for examples of good themes.
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