Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-20 Thread Owen Densmore 
Speaking of very successful Content Management Systems (Wordpress), what has 
become of Joomla? http://www.joomla.org/

I ask because the second most popular question (first is blogging) is "How do I 
make a website easily"?

Wordpress actually works fine for a website -- note SFX uses it.  But there was 
considerable interest in Joomla as well, but I haven't heard much about it 
lately.

-- Owen

On May 19, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Tyler White wrote:

> Go self-hosted Wordpress blog.  No other option comes close at the moment.
> 
> Tyler White¹
> http://TylerWhiteDesign.com
> http://twitter.com/Uberousful
> 
> On May 19, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> 
>> Saul, 
>> 
>> I suppose it depends on whether you have a nerdy brain.  
>> 
>> N
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
>> Of Saul Caganoff
>> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 3:43 AM
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
>> 
>> "nerdy heart" - is that good or bad?
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On 19/05/2011, at 2:42 PM, Nicholas  Thompson 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> My slight experience with WordPress made me feel that it had  a nerdy
>> heart.
>>> Don't be ashamed to try something that costs a little and doesn't have 
>>> the notion that learning obscure finger-mantras is good for your soul.
>>> 
>>> But I probably don't know what I am talking about.
>>> 
>>> Nick
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On 
>>> Behalf Of Gillian Densmore
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:28 PM
>>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
>>> 
>>> Wordpress is indeed pretty sweet. You might also want to check out 
>>> googles I think it's called blogger you may need a google acount to use
>> it.
>>> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Robert J. Cordingley 
>>>  wrote:
>>>> Hi Eric
>>>> WordPress.  If you get stuck or need some customizing I can help you.
>>>> There are tons of plugins for almost anything - very extensible.
>>>> Robert Cordingley
>>>> cirrillian.com
>>>> 
>>>> On 5/17/11 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hey all,
>>>> Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog.
>>>> Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough 
>>>> interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good 
>>>> idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons 
>>>> of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to 
>>>> host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my 
>>>> initial inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it 
>>>> easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm 
>>>> not even sure what other factors I should care about.
>>>> 
>>>> Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Eric
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at 
>>>> cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
>>>> http://www.friam.org
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at 
>>>> cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
>>>> http://www.friam.org
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe 
>>> at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
>>> http://www.friam.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
>>> http://www.friam.org
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
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Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-19 Thread Owen Densmore 
This reminds me of a series we were considering at the beginning of SFX:
The Web In Small Bytes
The idea is to build a small set of short talks on all the confusing parts of 
the web and its use and programming.

There really are a large number of topics:

Overview: just what is the web and what are its parts?
- Browsers/Servers
- Where/How are the parts distributed
- What happens on the server
- What happens on the client (browser)
Parts:
- HTML/HTML5 & CSS
- Hosting 
- FTP & Shell Login (bash, ssh/scp/wget/curl)
- Apache web server
- MySQL
- CMS: Content Management Systems
- Blogs (WordPress), Wikis (MediaWiki), Forums, SMTP/POP Mail, ...
- Programming
- Client: JavaScript
- Server: PHP, also Ruby & Python CMS
- Catalog of useful (often free) services
- gmail, wordpress.com, blogger, ...

If anyone is interested, we might have a round table on what is needed and how 
to best provide it.

-- Owen

On May 19, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Tyler White wrote:

> Go self-hosted Wordpress blog.  No other option comes close at the moment.
> 
> Tyler White¹
> http://TylerWhiteDesign.com
> http://twitter.com/Uberousful
> 
> On May 19, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> 
>> Saul, 
>> 
>> I suppose it depends on whether you have a nerdy brain.  
>> 
>> N
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
>> Of Saul Caganoff
>> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 3:43 AM
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
>> 
>> "nerdy heart" - is that good or bad?
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On 19/05/2011, at 2:42 PM, Nicholas  Thompson 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> My slight experience with WordPress made me feel that it had  a nerdy
>> heart.
>>> Don't be ashamed to try something that costs a little and doesn't have 
>>> the notion that learning obscure finger-mantras is good for your soul.
>>> 
>>> But I probably don't know what I am talking about.
>>> 
>>> Nick
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On 
>>> Behalf Of Gillian Densmore
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:28 PM
>>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
>>> 
>>> Wordpress is indeed pretty sweet. You might also want to check out 
>>> googles I think it's called blogger you may need a google acount to use
>> it.
>>> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Robert J. Cordingley 
>>>  wrote:
>>>> Hi Eric
>>>> WordPress.  If you get stuck or need some customizing I can help you.
>>>> There are tons of plugins for almost anything - very extensible.
>>>> Robert Cordingley
>>>> cirrillian.com
>>>> 
>>>> On 5/17/11 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hey all,
>>>> Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog.
>>>> Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough 
>>>> interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good 
>>>> idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons 
>>>> of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to 
>>>> host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my 
>>>> initial inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it 
>>>> easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm 
>>>> not even sure what other factors I should care about.
>>>> 
>>>> Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Eric
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at 
>>>> cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
>>>> http://www.friam.org
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at 
>>>> cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
>>>> http://www.friam.org
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>

Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-19 Thread Tyler White 
Go self-hosted Wordpress blog.  No other option comes close at the moment.

Tyler White¹
http://TylerWhiteDesign.com
http://twitter.com/Uberousful

On May 19, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:

> Saul, 
> 
> I suppose it depends on whether you have a nerdy brain.  
> 
> N
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
> Of Saul Caganoff
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 3:43 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
> 
> "nerdy heart" - is that good or bad?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 19/05/2011, at 2:42 PM, Nicholas  Thompson 
> wrote:
> 
>> My slight experience with WordPress made me feel that it had  a nerdy
> heart.
>> Don't be ashamed to try something that costs a little and doesn't have 
>> the notion that learning obscure finger-mantras is good for your soul.
>> 
>> But I probably don't know what I am talking about.
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On 
>> Behalf Of Gillian Densmore
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:28 PM
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
>> 
>> Wordpress is indeed pretty sweet. You might also want to check out 
>> googles I think it's called blogger you may need a google acount to use
> it.
>> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Robert J. Cordingley 
>>  wrote:
>>> Hi Eric
>>> WordPress.  If you get stuck or need some customizing I can help you.
>>> There are tons of plugins for almost anything - very extensible.
>>> Robert Cordingley
>>> cirrillian.com
>>> 
>>> On 5/17/11 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey all,
>>> Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog.
>>> Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough 
>>> interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good 
>>> idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons 
>>> of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to 
>>> host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my 
>>> initial inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it 
>>> easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm 
>>> not even sure what other factors I should care about.
>>> 
>>> Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Eric
>>> 
>>> 
>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at 
>>> cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
>>> http://www.friam.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at 
>>> cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
>>> http://www.friam.org
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe 
>> at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
>> http://www.friam.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe 
>> at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
>> http://www.friam.org
> 
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
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> unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-19 Thread Nicholas Thompson 
Saul, 

I suppose it depends on whether you have a nerdy brain.  

N

-Original Message-
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Saul Caganoff
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 3:43 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

"nerdy heart" - is that good or bad?

Sent from my iPhone

On 19/05/2011, at 2:42 PM, Nicholas  Thompson 
wrote:

> My slight experience with WordPress made me feel that it had  a nerdy
heart.
> Don't be ashamed to try something that costs a little and doesn't have 
> the notion that learning obscure finger-mantras is good for your soul.
>
> But I probably don't know what I am talking about.
>
> Nick
>
> -Original Message-
> From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On 
> Behalf Of Gillian Densmore
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:28 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
>
> Wordpress is indeed pretty sweet. You might also want to check out 
> googles I think it's called blogger you may need a google acount to use
it.
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Robert J. Cordingley 
>  wrote:
>> Hi Eric
>> WordPress.  If you get stuck or need some customizing I can help you.
>> There are tons of plugins for almost anything - very extensible.
>> Robert Cordingley
>> cirrillian.com
>>
>> On 5/17/11 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>> Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog.
>> Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough 
>> interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good 
>> idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons 
>> of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to 
>> host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my 
>> initial inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it 
>> easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm 
>> not even sure what other factors I should care about.
>>
>> Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> 
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at 
>> cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
>> http://www.friam.org
>>
>> 
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at 
>> cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
>> http://www.friam.org
>>
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe 
> at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
> http://www.friam.org
>
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe 
> at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
> http://www.friam.org


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Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-19 Thread Saul Caganoff 
"nerdy heart" - is that good or bad?

Sent from my iPhone

On 19/05/2011, at 2:42 PM, Nicholas  Thompson
 wrote:

> My slight experience with WordPress made me feel that it had  a nerdy heart.
> Don’t be ashamed to try something that costs a little and doesn’t have the
> notion that learning obscure finger-mantras is good for your soul.
>
> But I probably don't know what I am talking about.
>
> Nick
>
> -Original Message-
> From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
> Of Gillian Densmore
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:28 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
>
> Wordpress is indeed pretty sweet. You might also want to check out googles I
> think it's called blogger you may need a google acount to use it.
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Robert J. Cordingley
>  wrote:
>> Hi Eric
>> WordPress.  If you get stuck or need some customizing I can help you.
>> There are tons of plugins for almost anything - very extensible.
>> Robert Cordingley
>> cirrillian.com
>>
>> On 5/17/11 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>> Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog.
>> Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting
>> stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was
>> hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different
>> blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it
>> myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my initial
>> inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it easy to
>> do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm not even
>> sure what other factors I should care about.
>>
>> Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> 
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe
>> at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at
>> http://www.friam.org
>>
>> 
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe
>> at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at
>> http://www.friam.org
>>
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives,
> unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
> 
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Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-18 Thread Nicholas Thompson 
My slight experience with WordPress made me feel that it had  a nerdy heart.
Don’t be ashamed to try something that costs a little and doesn’t have the
notion that learning obscure finger-mantras is good for your soul.  

But I probably don't know what I am talking about. 

Nick 

-Original Message-
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Gillian Densmore
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:28 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

Wordpress is indeed pretty sweet. You might also want to check out googles I
think it's called blogger you may need a google acount to use it.
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Robert J. Cordingley
 wrote:
> Hi Eric
> WordPress.  If you get stuck or need some customizing I can help you.  
> There are tons of plugins for almost anything - very extensible.
> Robert Cordingley
> cirrillian.com
>
> On 5/17/11 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:
>
> Hey all,
> Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog.
> Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting 
> stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was 
> hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different 
> blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it 
> myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my initial 
> inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it easy to 
> do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm not even 
> sure what other factors I should care about.
>
> Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe 
> at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
> http://www.friam.org
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe 
> at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at 
> http://www.friam.org
>


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Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-18 Thread Gillian Densmore 
Wordpress is indeed pretty sweet. You might also want to check out
googles I think it's called blogger you may need a google acount to
use it.
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Robert J. Cordingley
 wrote:
> Hi Eric
> WordPress.  If you get stuck or need some customizing I can help you.  There
> are tons of plugins for almost anything - very extensible.
> Robert Cordingley
> cirrillian.com
>
> On 5/17/11 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:
>
> Hey all,
> Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog.
> Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff
> seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for
> some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging
> platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use
> Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an
> established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs
> and track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care
> about.
>
> Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
> 
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>


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Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Robert J. Cordingley 

Hi Eric
WordPress.  If you get stuck or need some customizing I can help you.  
There are tons of plugins for almost anything - very extensible.

Robert Cordingley
cirrillian.com 

On 5/17/11 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:

Hey all,
Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a 
blog. Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough 
interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good 
idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons 
of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to 
host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my initial 
inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it easy to 
do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm not even 
sure what other factors I should care about.


Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Eric



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Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Victoria Hughes 

Note:
If you get hosting through HostMonster or BlueHost or any of those,  
there's no fee for domain registration. GoDaddy will charge you for  
registration, usually 11.99 a year, plus all sorts of other small duck- 
pecks that add up.
	( I have several accounts with GoDaddy and for many things they are  
great, but if things get complicated, they will always help you but  
they may be wrong, or worse, break something. May be an unusual event,  
but a couple of months ago they actually deleted my entire website -  
database and all. They went off into their actual PHYSICAL TAPES (!!!)  
to find my site at a previous time and reinstalled it, but this all  
took two weeks, and left many broken links, and they never apologized  
or gave me a refund or credit. I am moving my sites to HostMonster,  
but doing it very carefully.)


Victoria

On May 17, 2011, at 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote:


Hey all,
Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a  
blog. Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough  
interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a  
good idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros  
and cons of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the  
ability to host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system,  
but my initial inclination is to go with an established entity that  
makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and track user  
stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about.


Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Eric

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Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Victoria Hughes 

ho ho ho.
Too true.
Although personally I prefer  'compulsive communicator'.

Victoria


On May 17, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:


Eric,

I would not advise anyone to start a blog who didn’t have a genuine  
case of logorrhea.  It’s like, gee, wouldn’t it be nice to have a  
daily column in the newspaper.  Yeah, for about a week, but  
then…..?  It’s like having to cook dinner EVERY night.


I have logorrhea, but it’s a form of the disease called “responsive  
logorrhea”.  Responsive logorhheaics (!??) are silent until asked a  
question, but once asked, can always be counted on to write an  
answer so long the questioner won’t possibly read it.


Like, for instance, this message ….
Nick

From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com]  
On Behalf Of ERIC P. CHARLES

Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:56 PM
To: friam
Subject: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

Hey all,
Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a  
blog. Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough  
interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a  
good idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros  
and cons of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the  
ability to host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system,  
but my initial inclination is to go with an established entity that  
makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and track user  
stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about.


Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Eric

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Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson 
Eric, 

 

I would not advise anyone to start a blog who didn’t have a genuine case of 
logorrhea.  It’s like, gee, wouldn’t it be nice to have a daily column in the 
newspaper.  Yeah, for about a week, but then…..?  It’s like having to cook 
dinner EVERY night.  

 

I have logorrhea, but it’s a form of the disease called “responsive logorrhea”. 
 Responsive logorhheaics (!??) are silent until asked a question, but once 
asked, can always be counted on to write an answer so long the questioner won’t 
possibly read it.  

 

Like, for instance, this message ….

Nick  

 

From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of 
ERIC P. CHARLES
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:56 PM
To: friam
Subject: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

 

Hey all,
Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. Enough 
of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff seems to 
be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for some 
collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging platforms. I 
do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use Penn State's 
in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an established entity 
that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. 
I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about. 

Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!

Thanks, 


Eric 


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Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Jon Bringhurst 
I've been happy with tumblr.com for quite some time (I'm one of the contented 
ones ;).

-Jon

On May 17, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:

> You'll be sorry.  :)  Look what happened to one discontented LANL employee 
> when he started one.  Maybe it's ok to start one if you're contented, though.
> 
> --Doug
> 
> -- 
> Doug Roberts
> drobe...@rti.org
> d...@parrot-farm.net
> http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins
> 
> 505-455-7333 - Office
> 505-670-8195 - Cell
> 
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES  wrote:
> Hey all,
> Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. 
> Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff 
> seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for 
> some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging 
> platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use 
> Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an 
> established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and 
> track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about. 
> 
> Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Eric 
> 
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Saul Caganoff 
I use Wordpress that I installed and hosted myself on a godaddy cheapie
virtual host - mostly for the experience. You could use the hosted version(
wordpress.com) which is free I think? I'm very happy with Wordpress and it
seems to be oone of the most popular platforms.

Cheers,
Saul

On 18 May 2011 08:56, ERIC P. CHARLES  wrote:

> Hey all,
> Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog.
> Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff
> seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for
> some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging
> platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use
> Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an
> established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs
> and track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care
> about.
>
> Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>



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Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Douglas Roberts 
You'll be sorry.  :)  Look what happened to one discontented LANL employee
when he started one .  Maybe
it's ok to start one if you're *contented*, though.

--Doug

-- 
Doug Roberts
drobe...@rti.org
d...@parrot-farm.net
http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins

505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES  wrote:

> Hey all,
> Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog.
> Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff
> seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for
> some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging
> platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use
> Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an
> established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs
> and track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care
> about.
>
> Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>

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[FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES 
Hey all,
Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. Enough
of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff seems to
be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for some
collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging platforms. I
do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use Penn State's
in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an established entity
that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats.
I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about. 

Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated!

Thanks, 

Eric 

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Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
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