[p2p-research] Moving to blogging: Wordpress vs. Movable Type vs. other?

[Paul D. Fernhout]

Well, Drupal and other things seemed mighty nice, but I decided to try 
Wordpress for a while (in part because Michel is using it for the 
p2pfoundation blog).

Here is a first try at using that (with a first trial post, too long as 
usual as it tries to bring together ideas from many of my posts here and on 
the OM list, something to work on. :-)
   "Beyond a Jobless Recovery: Some hope and insight for troubled times..."
   http://www.beyondajoblessrecovery.org/

A first post:
http://www.beyondajoblessrecovery.org/2009/10/03/why-limited-demand-means-joblessness/

I may still change that site around, either as to the CMS/blog or even as to 
the domain name. But, it's a first cut at setting up a place to focus on the 
current issues that swirl around joblessness and an economy changing rapidly 
in the face of more automation and better design and other structural 
changes in our society (including increasing p2p).

==== A technical note related to p2p licensing:

I modified two Wordpress PHP templates to put a statement about CC-BY-SA 
licensing.

for the default theme, in comments.php, after:
<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" 
tabindex="4"></textarea></p>

<p>The submitter agrees that any content submitted here is hereby placed 
under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported License (same as Wikipedia), and also agrees not
to include copyrighted material without permission of the copyright holder 
unless otherwise covered by "fair use". </p>
<p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit 
Comment" />

And in footer.php:
                 <?php bloginfo('name'); ?> is proudly powered by
                 <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>;
                 <a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Entries (RSS)</a>
                 and <a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); 
?>">Comments (RSS)</a>.
                 <br />All content here (including comments, but excepting 
items used under "fair use") is submitted under the
                 <br /><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License">Creative 
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
3.0 Unported License</a>.

I can wonder if there are available Wordpress themes that build in more 
information about license assignments?

--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/


Paul D. Fernhout wrote:
> Someone has recommended to me to Drupal.
> 
> This makes me realize that a larger issue is really blog vs. CMS 
> (Content Management System):
>   http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=blog+vs.+cms
> Example:
>    
> http://unfoldingneurons.com/2007/cms-vs-blogno-you-dont-need-pepto-bismol
> "For me, these three differences (structure, purpose, function) are the 
> primary ones I worked through when thinking about the best fit for the 
> sites I was designing (CMS or Blog engine?). Of course, from the title 
> of this series you should’ve guessed by now that the sites I designed 
> were more suited to a CMS than a blog engine. If so, then why did I go 
> with Wordpress as the core for their design? In the next article I’m 
> going to answer that question."
> 
> Others:
> http://techthinker.com/blogs-vs-cms-which-one-to-choose/
> http://www.alledia.com/blog/general-cms-issues/joomla-and-drupal-which-one-is-right-for-you/ 
> 
> 
> Again, the p2pfoundation has Wordpress for the blog (and maybe some 
> content?) and MediaWiki essentially as a wiki-oriented CMS as well.
> 
> As suggested here:
> http://forums.seochat.com/blogs-tagging-rss-feeds-74/cms-vs-blog-for-content-driven-website-81832.html 
> 
> I've always stuck with strait HTML pages in the past (and maybe local 
> programs on my desktop for generating them, and then SCP-ing them to the 
> site). I actually like that, and there are packages that help with that 
> one could use, although making a site *interactive* with comments or 
> polls and so on is a different requirement, and entails some sort of 
> script running on the server.
> 
> I've often mused about the Pointrel system as a content publishing 
> system, where people develop all content using programs in Java on their 
> desktop, but then send them to archives or web sites to share them. So, 
> in that system, you would compose a website comment locally, and then 
> publish it to someone else's site that allows comments. But Google Wave 
> is doing something like that now for real (although it is 
> browser/javascript based, not Java application based).
> 
> --Paul Fernhout
> http://www.pdfernhout.net/
> 
> Paul D. Fernhout wrote:
>> Interesting related link:
>>   "Live Blogging With Google Wave, iDEA"
>> http://www.offlineblog.net/2009/09/live-blogging-with-google-wave-and-wordpress-idea/ 
>>
>> "Want to cover an event through Live Blogging  ? Google Wave is all 
>> you need for Live blogging using Wordpress (or any other blogging or 
>> CMS platform like Drupal and Joomla ). Read on, to know how this can 
>> be done."
>>
>> --Paul Fernhout
>> http://www.pdfernhout.net/
>>
>> Paul D. Fernhout wrote:
>>> I'm starting to think a better question to be asking is, what 
>>> questions should I be asking about today's blogging software?
>>>
>>> So much to choose from, even just in Python:
>>>   http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBlogSoftware
>>>
>>> A better question is, what issues should I consider to make a good 
>>> choice?
>>>
>>> --Paul Fernhout
>>> http://www.pdfernhout.net/
>>>
>>> Paul D. Fernhout wrote:
>>>> I see I misspelled "Movable Type" several times. :-) Plus 
>>>> "suggestions".
>>>>
>>>> --Paul Fernhout
>>>> http://www.pdfernhout.net/
>>>>
>>>> Paul D. Fernhout wrote:
>>>>> This is essentially a very basic p2p question. :-)
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>> Anyway, what do people here think is the state-of-the-art in p2p 
>>>>> blogging? And are any suggestions more cutting edge or more 
>>>>> bleeding edge?
> 
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