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[Jason Creighton]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:28:32PM -0700, Heather Stern wrote:
> [ Mike Orr wrote: ]
> > What's the most politically correct blogging service?  E.g., run by
> > volunteers or a "good" company like OSTG, Linux-using, not treating
> > members like children, etc?

Well, I'm using Blogger, which is owned by Google, which may or may not
could as a "good" company, depending on your views.

As for not treating members as children...

I'm using Textile[1], which is one of those "smart" text-to-HTML markup
deals. I type out a post in vim under mutt, hit a keybinding to pipe the
mail through Redcloth (A Ruby Textile implementation), and then mail the
message to a magic address with automatically posts it.

Now, it turns out that the email gateway eats newlines, whichs marks
marking something up with <pre> pretty useless. I've emailed them about
this. We'll see if they blow me off. Stay tuned...

> If I recall correctly, Wordpress is gaining popularity, but I'm not sure if
> it's a service, or a webapp that one installs and runs.

"Yes". :)

Wordpress is a PHP CMS/blogging framework. You can install it yourself
if you've got webspace with PHP+MySQL. I believe that some services use
Wordpress, or at least the option to use Wordpress, so you could get it
a service if you really wanted it.

Jason Creighton