Spammers continue to find new ways to do their business and new ways to cause frustration for those of us who administer software that fosters small, open communities. These communities are fragile and grow up in a delicate environment. The environment needs to remain open: self-registration, the ability to post content, and the option of [...]
Eugene Kim, Brad Neuberg, and I will be meeting at my place this coming Saturday, May 12, at 10am for an ad hoc HyperScope sprint. Please join us! This will be an outstanding opportunity to meet the team, learn about HyperScope, and help us move the project forward. If you’d like to [...]
A few weeks ago I had dinner with Doug Engelbart and Shinya Yamada and Doug mentioned to me that he was interested in blogging. We agreed that I would set up him up with some blog software and then he could give it a try and see how he liked it. After Shinya created the [...]
Wikis are so useful because they strike the right balance between making it easy for a purveyor of information to write down something new, or improve on something someone else wrote, while still allowing readers to view the content in a web-accessible, platform-neutral way. They don’t impose restrictions on the structure or format of the [...]
I’ve finally revamped my site and installed some content management system (CMS) software. I’m currently trying out drupal-4.7.3 and wordpress-2.0.4. As with most choices with software, there are clearly advantages and disadvantages to both.
Drupal is a more full-featured CMS, and it includes support for creating standard pages, forums, and blogging. It uses a module approach [...]