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Shockeye
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on: February 10, 2005, 12:26:43 PM

I know many of you have blogs and some of you may be considering blogging, but what I'd like to know is if anyone would be interested in free blogging through us.

Running our own server gives us the option of installing blogging software so people can have their own blog sites.

Is there any interest in us setting this up?
schild
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Reply #1 on: February 10, 2005, 12:27:46 PM

Also, we can host domain names for such things as well. So if you have anothersillyblog.com, we can set that up for you.
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Reply #2 on: February 10, 2005, 12:30:33 PM

I'd be willing to move mine to your setup.

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Krakrok
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Reply #3 on: February 10, 2005, 02:17:03 PM

You really should be running blog software on your main page anyway. Three reasons why: RSS, Trackbacks, and XML-RPC pings. All of which increase syndication if you're looking to grow the site.

I don't want to do any self promotion here (as I don't know if it's wanted) or I'd link to my own forays into blogging.
schild
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Reply #4 on: February 10, 2005, 02:31:31 PM

We could set up RSS and whatnot. But we'd rather people actually visit than do that feed shit.
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Reply #5 on: February 10, 2005, 02:40:23 PM

Count me in. I would be very interested in this.
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Reply #6 on: February 10, 2005, 03:31:31 PM

That could be fun.  I'd even try to keep the navel-gazing to a minimum.   wink
Krakrok
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Reply #7 on: February 10, 2005, 03:53:41 PM

We could set up RSS and whatnot. But we'd rather people actually visit than do that feed shit.

They have to know your site even exists before they can read it. RSS 0.91 only does the first 512 characters of a post. And you get to use pingomatic.com (read the about page) which tells 12+ blog aggregator sites (blog search engines etc.) that you just made a blog post.

Another example would be my.yahoo.com where you can add an rss feed and it shows you the latest 5 post titles or whatever. You click through to read the full article.

Hard to tell if it would matter though because F13 is more about the forum than the homepage posts at the moment.
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Reply #8 on: February 10, 2005, 09:31:57 PM

Interesting. Very... interesting. I'd consider moving my domain over to that. Then again, I do get my hosting for free so I don't know for sure.
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Reply #9 on: February 11, 2005, 12:10:15 AM

I know many of you have blogs and some of you may be considering blogging, but what I'd like to know is if anyone would be interested in free blogging through us.

Running our own server gives us the option of installing blogging software so people can have their own blog sites.

Is there any interest in us setting this up?

Yes please.  Might as well join the year 2002 and stop living in the wayback machine.

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Reply #10 on: February 11, 2005, 04:32:38 AM

Yes.

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Reply #11 on: February 11, 2005, 08:24:09 AM

Mine's already on a friend's host, otherwise I'd be all over this shit. However, should Azhrarn ever die in a ramen fire, I'll hop on this bandwagon.
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Reply #12 on: February 11, 2005, 08:39:07 AM

Help! I'm trapped in 1994. What are blogs for again?

If they're something like this, then I advise against it.
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Reply #13 on: February 11, 2005, 09:37:42 AM

I have been pondering setting up a blog for months now. Were blogging to be available here, I would likely consider it even more.

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Reply #14 on: February 11, 2005, 10:11:20 AM

No, blogs are more like this.

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Samwise
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Reply #15 on: February 11, 2005, 10:32:54 AM

See, I was going to post a link to that, but then I realized that doing that would reveal me as the asshole I am.   rolleyes

(Edit: Wow, I didn't realize Geldon was struggling to reach a 2.0 GPA.)
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Reply #16 on: February 11, 2005, 11:07:03 AM

I always enjoy Joe's blogs even though they sometimes confuse me.  And where is Geldon been anyway?  I never see him anymore. 


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Reply #17 on: February 11, 2005, 11:16:50 AM

See, I was going to post a link to that, but then I realized that doing that would reveal me as the asshole I am.   rolleyes

(Edit: Wow, I didn't realize Geldon was struggling to reach a 2.0 GPA.)

So, I ended up playing hooky. For most of the morning I browsed the forums of Grimwell.com, knowing full well that an additional Math111 assignment was being given and I wasn't there to receive it.

Gee, I wonder why.


I always enjoy Joe's blogs even though they sometimes confuse me.

Thank you. I think the trick is to look at it as though there's some strange inside joke going on within the writer's head, and the hastily written updates don't give the time to actually explain it to the reader.
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Reply #18 on: February 11, 2005, 01:06:39 PM

I was going to post something very critical about failing to maintain a 2.0 in Math 111 which, where I went to school, was College Algebra but I did a quick search through google and found courses labeled Math 111 which were anywhere from Basic Math to Intermediate Calculus.

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Reply #19 on: February 11, 2005, 03:32:53 PM

I'll save my opinions of those who have problems with basic calculus for my blog.
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Reply #20 on: February 11, 2005, 04:10:04 PM

I'm not sure anyone should know what I'm thinking about.

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Shockeye
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Reply #21 on: February 11, 2005, 04:12:49 PM

I'm not sure anyone should know what I'm thinking about.
I agree.
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Reply #22 on: February 11, 2005, 04:13:48 PM

You didn't have to be so quick to agree!   angry

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schild
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Reply #23 on: February 11, 2005, 08:47:35 PM

I'm currently looking into Wordpress, bBlog, Drupal, and Blog:CMS as options. The obvious options are pMachine and Movable Type, both of which I've used and both of which are assloads of uselessness. Joe has had experience with Wordpress as have I, and he can back me up in saying a monkey can run it like a god. Basically, it's weak. It's the blogging equivilent of putting up a .txt.

Drupal and bBlog are far more powerful.

Blog:CMS is overkill.

The other question is, would you all design them yourselves, or, I guess I could do graphics and whatnot and Shockeye could throw some official f13 templates together for whatever software we end up using.

We can also, of course, offer subdomains if you don't have your own domain name. So cheddar.f13.net would work. We can also set you up with mailboxes. I will say this though:

If it's inactive for long periods of time, we'll dump it. I mean like 3-6 months. Character Wipes are common here.

Also, I don't know how long this free blog shit will be offered by Shockeye and myself, but drop me a private message if you are quite interested and we can discuss things. Particularly if you have your own domain name as it takes 12-48 hours to transfer.
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Reply #24 on: February 12, 2005, 12:48:50 AM

I've never really seen the appeal to people setting up web pages to discuss the mundane details of their life which I'd probably tune out if they were talking to me in person.  Still, if it were easy to set up I might be interested in making one to "review" whatever comics I pick up each week since I've never wanted to clutter up the forum with them.  So personally I'd lean toward whatever is the easiest to set up.
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Reply #25 on: February 12, 2005, 01:04:04 AM

Blogs are the new personal home page. Remember when everyone had one of those? Here's a picture of me with my cat!

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Reply #26 on: February 12, 2005, 04:57:05 AM

Only if the available templates were gothy enough (huh, what?)! I think i would be greately interested in having some kind of centralised place to read all of the crazy personal things you people write. I have my own, but i doubt anyone would want to read a whole lot of stuff about counter-strike strats.  :-D

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Reply #27 on: February 13, 2005, 11:28:32 AM

I may be interested.

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Reply #28 on: February 13, 2005, 12:55:02 PM

I've never really seen the appeal to people setting up web pages to discuss the mundane details of their life which I'd probably tune out if they were talking to me in person.  Still, if it were easy to set up I might be interested in making one to "review" whatever comics I pick up each week since I've never wanted to clutter up the forum with them.  So personally I'd lean toward whatever is the easiest to set up.

Like any other media, blogs are only good if the creator knows his target readers.
Blog tools are just low level CMS that enables people to make better looking webpages easier. Some are good and have lots of readers. Others are crap.
Just like the Internet since it's birth.
Blogging is nothing new, just a better tool. And personal webpages are fine, if the person doing them, doesn't expect a lot of people to give a shit.
Mine has a section for friends and family. A section for future employers (now defunct). And a section for (Danish) students of journalism and others with that interest to find out some more about journalism school and whatnot.
In other words I know my audience, I don't expect revenue and I don't really want Google to index most of it, because only a small part of it could possibly matter to people, that don't allready know me irl.
But there's nothing wrong with crappy personal blogs filled with the mindnumbingly boring minutia of the bloggers life as long as it has just one reader - it's just the failure of search engine technology, that other people stumble upon them.

Oh, and I started using Dreamweaver and Flash. Now I use Movable Type, which I like so much I bought the new version. I have hosting though, but it's a good offer.
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Reply #29 on: February 13, 2005, 10:04:48 PM

I'm currently bitching and moaning through my own website but I would seriously consider bitching and moaning on a blog site here because I know my fellow EQ Karana server asshats read it.

I'm always pleased that there is another space out there for me to yell at incompetence.


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Reply #30 on: February 14, 2005, 04:18:16 AM

I'm currently looking into Wordpress, bBlog, Drupal, and Blog:CMS as options. The obvious options are pMachine and Movable Type, both of which I've used and both of which are assloads of uselessness. Joe has had experience with Wordpress as have I, and he can back me up in saying a monkey can run it like a god. Basically, it's weak. It's the blogging equivilent of putting up a .txt.

Drupal and bBlog are far more powerful.

Blog:CMS is overkill.

The other question is, would you all design them yourselves, or, I guess I could do graphics and whatnot and Shockeye could throw some official f13 templates together for whatever software we end up using.

We can also, of course, offer subdomains if you don't have your own domain name. So cheddar.f13.net would work. We can also set you up with mailboxes. I will say this though:

If it's inactive for long periods of time, we'll dump it. I mean like 3-6 months. Character Wipes are common here.

Also, I don't know how long this free blog shit will be offered by Shockeye and myself, but drop me a private message if you are quite interested and we can discuss things. Particularly if you have your own domain name as it takes 12-48 hours to transfer.

Would be cool if you could support Textpattern.

"Life is no cabaret... we're inviting you anyway." ~Amanda Palmer
"Tree, awesome, numa numa, love triangle, internal combustion engine, mountain, walk, whiskey, peace, pascagoula" ~Lantyssa
"Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus." ~Marcel Proust
Shockeye
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Reply #31 on: February 14, 2005, 04:26:46 AM

WordPress 1.5 is being officially released tomorrow. We plan to look it over and see if it merits being used or not.
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Reply #32 on: February 14, 2005, 08:06:36 PM

What's the word on 1.5?
schild
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Reply #33 on: February 14, 2005, 08:09:28 PM

The word is patience, kid.
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Reply #34 on: February 14, 2005, 09:05:59 PM

...because I know my fellow EQ Karana server asshats read it.

Yo, I'm a former rogue from Karana...

name/lvl/class?

heh

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