"Murphy was an optimist!"
Blogger – the gateway to WordPress January 4, 2007 7:54 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Announcements, Blog, Cool Sites, Of Interest, PublishingBlogger with its minimal barrier to entering the world of self-publishing helps people understand the pleasures of blogging. Then it frustrates us with service outages, bad customer service, and the inability to backup data and years of work. Then we discover there is a world of highly configurable, open source content management systems freely available. We learn about a wiki and that they too abound in open source but wikis serve a different a purpose than CMS.
A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiË]
or [ˈwiË.kiË] [1]) is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring. … WikiWikiWeb was the first such software to be called a wiki. Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995. It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the so-called “Wiki Wiki” Chance RT-52 shuttle bus line that runs between the airport’s terminals. According to Cunningham, “I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for ‘quick’ and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web.” “Wiki Wiki” is a reduplication of “wiki”, a Hawaiian-language word for fast. The word wiki is a shorter form of wiki wiki (weekie, weekie). The word is sometimes interpreted as the backronym for “what I know is”, which describes the knowledge contribution, storage, and the exchange function.
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A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system used to assist its users in the process of content management. A CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents. A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to websites.
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I am a WordPress fan. WordPress has a shared solution similar to Blogger at WordPress.com and provides an open source solution at WordPress.org. The open source solution will give you more control but you will need to have a place to put your website which means paying for some hosting (which is cheap these days!).
On January 2nd I mentioned that Latte Man moved to WordPress. I should have also mentioned that Newscoma has moved to WordPress! Update your marks. Find Newscoma at http://newscoma.com/. Jon is still trying to get Katie to make the move away from Blogger.
There are other solutions. For great examples of Drupal installations, look at any of Tim’s sites. Anghus suggests that we take a look at Joomla.
Btw, if you are a programmer writing CMS systems, like I do, then this link to compare wysiwyg editors will be invaluable to you. I personally almost always end up with Xinha.
6commentsUpdate your marks! January 2, 2007 9:49 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Announcements, Cool Sites, Of InterestIncase you missed it, Latte Man has come over from the dark side and converted to WordPress! Visit him at http://tripleventi.com/, and add his rss feed and his comment feed to your readers. Talk to Jon about feed readers.
3commentsAnd the fifth one went wii wii wii all the way home empty handed… November 27, 2006 2:56 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Games/Puzzles, Hardware, Of Interest, TechnologyLooking for a wii? At the time of this posting, only eBay has them "in stock"
3commentsAtomicTumor site overwhelmed November 17, 2006 1:48 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Announcements, Cool Sites, Of InterestA flood of traffic seems to have brought down the Tumor. I am sure it will be back soon.
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Woot Off! November 16, 2006 8:22 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Bargains, Cool Sites, Of Interest
We have a confirmed Woot-Off! I explain woot off here. And thanks to Single Dads we have a site that will sound an alarm whenever the product changes! Good shopping!
add a commentCool Pool November 15, 2006 8:35 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Of Interest- Water: 2.500.000 liters of spring water at 30°C, visbility >33m, without chlorine smell
- Ferment: 2 pools, 3 pits (5, 10 and 33m)
- Decoration: Caves at -10m, possibility of fixing of new decorations.
- Never seen before: Three permanent bells of air under pressure (-9m, -7m, air renewed permanently), they avoid ceaseless return tickets bottom-surface of the student and his instructor.
- Technic: 250 anchoring points distributed in the tank to:
- changer the aspect of the swimming pool (for the amateurs)
- adapt it to the need for a film making
- to adapt it to the need for the scientists and technicians
- Changing rooms : Heated, separated man-woman, showers separated, toilets separated.
- Lightning : Natural & artificial
Light Linkage November 13, 2006 2:51 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Humor, Of Interest, PhilosophyCat pictorials for Jasper.
add a commentMLADS Now Maszman Speaks November 13, 2006 10:08 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Announcements, Cool Sites, Of InterestHurray! Blogger loses another one! Tom Maszerowski has moved My Likes and Dislikes from Blogger to Maszman Speaks using WordPress. Way to go!
On a similar note, we moved Aspergerteen from Blogger to Aspergerteen.com using WordPress but we haven’t started posting again yet.
8commentsAnd I laughed until I cried… October 31, 2006 4:04 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Of InterestNow this is good blog! And if you read the comments, you’ll learn that the star of the story is someone’s dad.
1 comment so farBye Bye Black Sheep October 15, 2006 2:02 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Of InterestWhat’s this? "Baaa. No black sheep." Kristyk turns us onto this excellent photoblog! I really like the puddle jumping.
add a commentSelf-esteem – don’t look to the ads October 14, 2006 9:32 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Health, Mental, Of InterestWe should show this to our children, repeatedly.
add a commentSeeking invitation October 12, 2006 7:26 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Of InterestDoes anyone have an invitation code for coghead that you are willing to pass along?
3commentsThe Next Number One Video October 11, 2006 9:43 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Of Interest, VideoGoldenAppleCorp of AtomicTumor has identified what is undeniably, a piece of video art! At first I was wondering why I was watching; in the end, I wanted to watch it over and over! I think perhaps a bored Monty Python animator had some influence on this video.
add a commentI haven’t chimed in on Foley yet October 4, 2006 7:58 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Of Interest, Politics, Touchy Subjects, United States, VideoI am not certain that I have made a strong enough effort to introduce many of you to Ze Frank. After losing, Amanda (ie. the Rocketboom fiasco), I more or less turned my daily 3 minutes of "I’ll watch anything" to Ze Frank’s The Show. My standard disclaimer is that Ze Frank is very bright but uses some language that might not be appropriate in certain settings – maybe not quite Red Fox but definitely not Bill Cosby.
All that aside, I think today Ze Frank pretty much summed up the Foley stuff. Push play and see for yourself.
the show with zefrank
Transcript
Who you gonna call for Halloween? October 4, 2006 12:52 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Of InterestWow! That’s a costume!
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