Comments on: It Was a Train That Took Me Away From Here

By: Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:57:04 +0000

I like Drupal too, I use it for my community site H2otown.info. Fortunately the guys at Bryght.net do the back end for me (sort of like TypePad for Drupal) so I don’t have to mess with that more than I want to. It has a lot of benefits; namely that anyone who signs in to comment gets their own blog to writeup their own news stories. This creates a nice workflow, where people post stuff in their own space but I can promote it to the front page. I chose it because I wanted to make a community site and couldn’t figure out how to provide logins to lots of people while still retaining some control over what got posted to the front page. $30 month, not bad; Ourmedia.org uses Bryght/Drupal too.

Generally, though, I use Drupal as a blogging system although it does a lot of other stuff.

My personal site is on WordPress, which I also like.

By: JonGarfunkel

JonGarfunkel — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:50:47 +0000

Oh, I am terribly sorry to you Brendan. And sorry to the rest of the ROS community for suggesting a familiarity which doesn’t really exist. I’ve met Brendan and Chris on two occasions; while Chris’s reputation is well-known and treasured, Brendan I found to be sharp and engaging as well. I drew that remark above based on recalling something specific Brendan wrote; the other comment I just associated with Chris’s more florid prose on blogs. What I did want to bring attention to was the ambiguous authorship. It would seem to me to be more clear a conversation if I knew who was starting it.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:05:29 +0000

We will continue to use WordPress, by the way. It’s capable of doing a lot of cool things, it’s easily manipulable, there’s a universe of plugins and it’s free.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:02:57 +0000

I am flattered that you’re aware that I might have a recognizable style, yet offended that you think me incapable of coposing anything less puerile than “Blogs suck for navigation.” I wrote this post.

By: JonGarfunkel

JonGarfunkel — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 04:41:05 +0000

One reason that Drupal is good is that it is a CMS that works after the blog has gone away.

who authors these posts? This one sounds like Brendan: “blogs suck for navigation.” and then I read: “The way posts scroll down tell us that someone is on the other end and breathing and thinking with each post” and this sounds like Chris. Someone has to explain how these are exceptional to blogs. You use blog as a marketing term, but so does everyone else, so it’s excused.

But the prototype is still missing a simple schedule of the the week behind and the week ahead– in order. Looking down the left side margin, the days are out of order.

Also, you can call the layout “like a webzine”– and review what makes the webzine format what it is.

By: Lisa Williams

Lisa Williams — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 05:56:09 +0000

What CMS are you considering using?

One reason blogs are good is that they are the CMS that works after the consultant has gone away.