11-05-2003 09:18									#1
	Suggestions on starting a blog? Inflate your Upload Space

I'm going to start a blog and am interested in knowing what others here have used.

I've read a lot of blogspot blogs but don't like the look of many of those, especially how they deal with archives. Are there any good alternatives?

I might just go with setting up a blog on my own web site. Are there any good, free, open-source php/MySQL-based engines? I have been so happy with phpBB on several forums that I've set up, so I'm positively predisposed towards this setup.

	11-05-2003 09:19									#2
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What the f is a blog Danf?

	11-05-2003 09:20									#3
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Death to bloggers!

	11-05-2003 09:20									#4
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

Blog=Web Log

	11-05-2003 09:20									#5
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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

	11-05-2003 09:20									#6
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LiveJournal is really good, but it's geared towards journal-type blogs more. You can basically customize every little thing yourself if you get a paid account, and the thing is open-source if you wanna play with that.

Personally I wrote my own PHP/MySQL blogging tool in a couple days a couple years ago. It did everything from user management, to posting, to editing, to searching (even highlighting the keywords a la google), and viewing archives in predefined timesegments or by selecting a start & end date...

It's very easy stuff.

	11-05-2003 09:22									#7
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Oh okay, thanks for the info.

I really like phpBB.

I think you can run a Postgres backend on it as well.

Hey, that would let us run a heavier load and therefore show images inline! :

	11-05-2003 09:23									#8
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Start one and tell everyone your an Iraqi in Baghdad who is being oppressed by the evil American Zionist Imperialists... What that one was already done?

	11-05-2003 09:26									#9
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Hey, Salam Pax and his buddy G. are about ready to sell out to those evil American Zionist Imperialists. Didn't you read the blog?

	11-05-2003 09:32									#10
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I got bored of it some time ago.

	11-05-2003 13:54									#11
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

I'm trying B2. It looks really simple and was a snap to install.

	11-05-2003 13:57									#12
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here's a suggestion: don't do it.

Really, why would you want to do it? I am so lucky this trend totally passed me by.

	11-05-2003 14:18									#13
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1. Make it interesting
2. Make it understandable (ie. not dealing with something esoteric only two people and a dog are interested in)
3. Have something new to say
4. Remember to make a regular contribution
5. Call it something else than a blog (I hate that word.)

	11-05-2003 18:31									#14
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I'm afraid it's not going to be understandable or interesting. Economics, business/finance, politics. You know, what I normally post about on Poly.

And it's going to be called a blog. I didn't make the word up, so don't blame me!

I've got to figure up a name... Any bright ideas in this regard? Blee bloo blar blog has already been taken.

	11-05-2003 19:30									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Death to bloggers!

	11-05-2003 21:01									#16
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I think y'all are scared to put out your own intellectual shingle.

	12-05-2003 00:59									#17
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So what are you going to write about DanS?

	12-05-2003 03:28									#18
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1. be short. No, really, we are all information overloaded so try to have less quotes and stuff and more your opinion (on whatever you are writing)

and let us know the adress when you set it up.

	12-05-2003 04:16									#19
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Just went to your site... Schmeltzer??

Haha, you're Dutch

Any relation to the (in)famous Catholic politician?

	12-05-2003 06:17									#20
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http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/co...lid,1253,00.asp

	12-05-2003 06:21									#21
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Beware the Blog!

	12-05-2003 08:34									#22
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quote: Originally posted by DanS I think y'all are scared to put out your own intellectual shingle.

If you are so good, you wouldn't be writing blog entries, you would be writing research papers, or at least books.