Howdy, I've been tasked with some investigation into implementing blogging within our enterprise. Being that I'm not a fan of PHP I prefer roller over wordpress, but there is some momentum building to select Wordpress over roller. The biggie that keeps getting mentioned is: 1) Wordpress development community more active.
I sort of look at them odd when they say that since roller is an apache project, and it's hard to think of a more active development community. So I've decided to try to become active in the roller development community myself. I'm not at liberty to say what company I'm with, just yet, so I'm using my personal information for now. The reason that I keep coming back to roller is that it is based on Java and it supports Oracle (our Enterprise dB solution). I've been looking deeper and deeper into roller, and the one feature that seems to me to be missing is the concept of "audience entitlement". Said another way, the ability to post an entry and then set a "group" that can view that entry [public, friends, custom, private]. My background is a more "journal" based approach to blogging (i.e. LiveJournal), and not just using blogging as a "public publishing system" approach, that I think roller represents? I'm guessing that the fundamental "approach" (journal vs. publishing) is one of root use case, so I wanted to ask the roller development community what the thoughts have been regarding these two different approaches? As I see it the "journaling" approach is more about social networking. Enabling the poster to create dynamic groups that represent different communities or levels of "trust" regarding who can see a given post. This seems to be compatible with personal usage, but in my opinion also seems to mesh well with an Enterprise usage. I say that because most Enterprises already have several "public publishing" methods in the form of traditional websites, news/announcement publishing systems, and/or collaborative workspaces, so what blogging brings to the Enterprise is this concept of a single place for a user to post, that then gives them an easy way to choose the audience for each of those posts. Before I dig into the code, I wanted to try to understand if there was any project "philosophy" regarding these approaches. THANKS! -Zac Morris ________________________________________________________________________ Delivered using the Free Personal edition of Mailtraq (www.mailtraq.com)
