[hbpm] Blogging?

[George Woolley]

I'll try to speak to your questions.

> ...... Have you found it to be very
> complex, or is it the sort of thing that you could whip together yourself
> in an hour or two? ......
Bloxsom is very simple. 
If you are interested in creating a really minimalist blogging system,
my suggestion would be to download it and install it
and then do something trivial with it.
At that point,
you could very well feel like writing your own.
I don't think writing your own would take long.

> ...... How useful do you think blogging is to the average web site? .....
My thought is that blogging is
likely not that useful for the average site. 
> ...... What uses does it fulfil? ......
For me, it's main use is for sharing ideas, feelings, etc.
(artistic, technical, political -- it doesn't matter)
in their formative stages.
For example, 
I might well read a blog by Larry Wall
where he shared his thoughts on Perl day by day.

      -- George

Aside: As far as I can tell Larry Wall doesn't have a blog.
While looking into that a tiny bit, 
I came across the following 
interesting (to me) interview with Larry Wall 
that I had not previously read:
      http://lwn.net/2001/features/LarryWall/

On Friday 28 February 2003 12:31 am, Daniel Hopkirk wrote:
> www.blogger.com provides a hosted blogging service.
>
> Until a few days before this post I didn't know what blogging was either,
> then I got pointed to that site. At that point, I rapidly realised that it
> is a very basic message board or forum variation. I made something similar
> on my intranet site. You post an item, and it displays it at the top
> (usually) of the list!
>
> Now, I don't presume to know all the finer details, and I am sure that
> blogging in its true sense must involve a bit more, but that is the general
> gist that I get.
>
> And as for the review (Since that was the real question), nice work. I am
> going to have to read it more thoroughly when I have time, as I only
> skimmed it.
> I cant say that I have ever heard of Blosxom! Have you found it to be very
> complex, or is it the sort of thing that you could whip together yourself
> in an hour or two? I prefer to do my own scripts where possible.
>
> How useful do you think blogging is to the average web site? What uses does
> it fulfil?
>
> Regards,
> Daniel Hopkirk
> http://hawkesbay.pm.org
> ICQ#:39905948
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Woolley" <george at metaart.org>
> To: <hawkesbay at mail.pm.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:39 PM
> Subject: [hbpm] Blogging?
>
> > Is anyone here interested in blogging?
> >
> > I did a review of "Essential Blogging". See:
> >    http://oakland.pm.org/reviews/blogging.html
> > With very little effort,
> > I got Blosxom running
> > which is powered by a single short Perl program.
> >
> > Any thoughts on Blosxom or the review?
> >
> >
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