The Perl Foundation has tried to get <a href="http://use.perl.org">use.perl.org</a> updated, but the people in charge didn't have the time or will to actually make it happen. David Cross and a bunch of other volunteers decided to take action and setup another blogging site that had a look and feel that was newer than 1998. The marketing people at TPF are trying to get all of these website owners to at least give facelifts to their pages. It's bad PR when you're trying to sell all your great web frameworks on a page that looks like, <a href="http://www.cpan.org">www.cpan.org</a> (for example). I know Randal Schwartz has decided to do his Perl blogging on <a href="http://blogs.perl.org">blogs.perl.org</a>. Either way, I prefer a central Perl blogging location and hopefully people will fully commit to one or the other.<div>
<br></div><div>-Dan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:17 PM, James E Keenan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkeen@verizon.net">jkeen@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Jul 6, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Daniel Magnuszewski wrote:<br>
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Many of you probably remember <a href="http://use.perl.org" target="_blank">use.perl.org</a>, which has essentially disappeared<br>
into obscurity, for Perl related blogging.<br>
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I think it's somewhat of an exaggeration to claim that <a href="http://use.perl.org" target="_blank">use.perl.org</a> has "disappeared into obscurity." Certainly, it is not very well maintained; its front page, in particular, has often seemed untended as of late. (Currently the most recent front page article is one posted on May 23.)<br>
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However, I do find that its "Recent Journals" pane is very useful. Many people who blog elsewhere cross-post to <a href="http://use.perl.org" target="_blank">use.perl.org</a>. Consider Patrick Michaud's recent post about Rakudo* and its July 29 release: <a href="http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/" target="_blank">http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/</a>.<br>
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I think <a href="http://use.perl.org" target="_blank">use.perl.org</a> is also useful for people like me who blog only infrequently. It means I don't have to set up my own blogging site or learn yet another blogging or wiki format. I don't want to discourage people from using <a href="http://blogs.perl.org" target="_blank">blogs.perl.org</a>. It's just that it's not the only game in town.<br>
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Frankly, it would be better if the management of <a href="http://use.perl.org" target="_blank">use.perl.org</a> were transferred to someone other than the current maintainer(s) so that it could be given a good facelift.<br>
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