Recommend a free weblog site June 13, 2002 1:44 PM Subscribe
Request for opinions: What free weblog site would you recommend?
How is Tripod a weblog site? Isn't signal asking about tools like LiveJournal, blogger, moveable type, Diaryland?
None of which I've used, so no comment.
posted by luser at 2:09 PM on June 13, 2002
None of which I've used, so no comment.
posted by luser at 2:09 PM on June 13, 2002
Care to field this one, lj_insomnia?
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:15 PM on June 13, 2002
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:15 PM on June 13, 2002
For the sake of all your children's souls, do not use OpenDiary or an derivative thereof.
posted by Apoch at 2:16 PM on June 13, 2002
posted by Apoch at 2:16 PM on June 13, 2002
This sounds like a perfect question for BlogRoots.
Speaking of, please read my latest post to MetaTalk about this.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:26 PM on June 13, 2002
Speaking of, please read my latest post to MetaTalk about this.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:26 PM on June 13, 2002
Oh, sorry. I wasn't thinking to clearly, and got "what free hosting site" out of it. Whoops.
I do like Blogger, me and everyone else.
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 3:26 PM on June 13, 2002
I do like Blogger, me and everyone else.
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 3:26 PM on June 13, 2002
There's a fantastic list here - both software and sites that host weblogs for free. I had never heard of some of them before I read this list, and the few that I visited had some nice little free weblog hosting/template things set up, somewhat like BlogSpot.
posted by iconomy at 4:37 PM on June 13, 2002
posted by iconomy at 4:37 PM on June 13, 2002
It seems like everybody is using MT, so much so, that I am inclined not to use it.... call me irrational...but Blogger and MovableType are kind of like the Backstreet Boys and *N'Sync of the weblog world.
posted by insomnyuk at 10:20 PM on June 13, 2002
posted by insomnyuk at 10:20 PM on June 13, 2002
Irrational.
Declaring things that are demonstrably good, stupid and cheezy is like the quintessential Backstreet Boys/*N'Sync statement of the "I'm-so-alternative-and-original" world.
No hard feelings. I had to say it.
(Thanks for spelling *N'Sync for me BTW)
posted by crasspastor at 11:23 PM on June 13, 2002
Declaring things that are demonstrably good, stupid and cheezy is like the quintessential Backstreet Boys/*N'Sync statement of the "I'm-so-alternative-and-original" world.
No hard feelings. I had to say it.
(Thanks for spelling *N'Sync for me BTW)
posted by crasspastor at 11:23 PM on June 13, 2002
Hopefully people will recognize the interesting analogy you pointed out crasspastor (which I vaguely had in mind as I wrote that)... otherwise I'll look pretty damn stupid..
Oy.
No hard feelings. I had to say it.
None taken.
posted by insomnyuk at 11:37 PM on June 13, 2002
Oy.
No hard feelings. I had to say it.
None taken.
posted by insomnyuk at 11:37 PM on June 13, 2002
Sigh...
If only MT had 'additional field' capabilities. The software is so lovely, but without that feature, we can't use it. Instead, we are driven to the horror that is NewsPro. Frustrating!
From what I understand, Ben and Mena will integrate 'additional fields' into MT Pro, but I think they said it's six months away. Is there a community of MT hackers somewhere who might be able to help us out?
posted by Marquis at 8:13 AM on June 14, 2002
If only MT had 'additional field' capabilities. The software is so lovely, but without that feature, we can't use it. Instead, we are driven to the horror that is NewsPro. Frustrating!
From what I understand, Ben and Mena will integrate 'additional fields' into MT Pro, but I think they said it's six months away. Is there a community of MT hackers somewhere who might be able to help us out?
posted by Marquis at 8:13 AM on June 14, 2002
From what I understand, Ben and Mena will integrate 'additional fields' into MT Pro, but I think they said it's six months away.
Six months away? I don't think Ben and I ever said that. I'm not sure when a pro version of MT is coming out, but it certainly won't be as long as that.
posted by mgtrott at 9:46 AM on June 14, 2002
Six months away? I don't think Ben and I ever said that. I'm not sure when a pro version of MT is coming out, but it certainly won't be as long as that.
posted by mgtrott at 9:46 AM on June 14, 2002
I must have sorta misunderstood Ben's May 15th post here.
posted by Marquis at 10:10 AM on June 14, 2002
posted by Marquis at 10:10 AM on June 14, 2002
Ben's responding to someone who asked if it "will be available in the next six months." It will, but is not necessarily six months away.
posted by mgtrott at 10:20 AM on June 14, 2002
posted by mgtrott at 10:20 AM on June 14, 2002
Ahh... I should have picked that up. Thanks. The feature can't come soon enough, especially as we're redesigning as I speak... :)
posted by Marquis at 10:55 AM on June 14, 2002
posted by Marquis at 10:55 AM on June 14, 2002
After the recent pain of moving three Movable Type sites to new hosts, I am very leery of using any content management system that stores messages in anything but regular old text files.
posted by kindall at 11:10 AM on June 14, 2002
posted by kindall at 11:10 AM on June 14, 2002
Not to get too completely off the subject here, but I'm currently in the middle of writing a CMS for the hell of it (A geek project), and I'd be interested in hearing what people WANT for features in CMS software.
posted by SweetJesus at 1:20 PM on June 14, 2002
posted by SweetJesus at 1:20 PM on June 14, 2002
A coffeemaker... that's what I want, anyway.
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 4:39 PM on June 16, 2002
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 4:39 PM on June 16, 2002
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posted by Yelling At Nothing at 1:57 PM on June 13, 2002