Katy, It is my opinion that you are in the right frame of mind. Sure you could subscribe to bloglines or any of the other hosted blog services. But if your interests are the internal workings of the design and development of a software package. Sure if you are going to write your own blog software you should follow the guideline of other more common packages and the features that they offer. You mentioned trackbacks. This is not that hard to implement via your own software implementation as long as you follow the accepted standard (see: http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/docs/trackback_spec). I would also for instance allow a comments ability.
To relay a story that was presented at this year's SXSW 2005 festival. Mr Jeffery Zeldman himself have the opening key note speech. He told a story of a young Mr. Matt Mullenweg still in college. Matt pulled enough money together to drive from Houston to Austin and attend the festival. During the 3 days there he learned about the blog revolution. When Matt returned home he was so on fire that he starting writing his own blog software in PHP. Even though he was not a programmer he had a simple working product in four months. This product is now branded WordPress and is used by many many people as their blog software including Mr. Zeldman, Eric Meyer and others. I guess my point is if you do develop your own blog software you just never know. People might just start using it. Paul --- Katy LaVallee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With all of the blog services and tools out there, do you think it's a > waste of time to write your own blogging application (disregarding the > educational benefits of programming your own stuff)? > > More specifically -- > > Considering the interconnectedness of the blog communities, would my > blog be a lot harder to find if I'm not with one of the well-known > services/applications? > > How vital is the "trackback" capability to making your blog known and > how advanced do my skills need to be to create a trackback utility > myself? Would people link to my blog if it didn't have trackback > capability? > > Has anyone on this list ever developed their own blog application? > Aside from trackbacks and the security issues involved in letting > people post comments on your site, it doesn't seem like it would be > very hard at all to write a blogging application. What are your > opinions? > > -- > katy > -- > Community email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
