The Ten Commandments of Weblogging...
Being a feeble transcription of some things that seemed really funny once over lunch with Cal, and which we tried - and failed - to get Webb interested in.
The Ten Commandments of Weblogging
- I am the log of the web. You shall have no other blogs but me.
- You shall not make for yourself other weblogs on other content management systems and look at them and get all wistful and think about changing to them instead.
- You shall not mention dodgy weblog CMSs in the same breath as proper ones like Blogger and Moveable Type. Bloxsom is not a proper weblogging system. It's a potato.
- Remember the Bloggie nomination day. For it is truly a holy day and if you don't remember and self-nominate and vote for yourself lots of times and get your friends to do so too, then you're probably screwed. But be careful, 'cos if Choire finds out you're in serious shit.
- Honor your blog-father and your blog-mother at blogtree.com - or get blog-smacked-around-the-head by Dave Winer.
- You shall not murder the English language (or whatever language it is you speak) just because you're l33t. Particularly not if you're a teenager. Especially not if you like Linkin Park.
- Thou shalt not commit weblog-adultery with other people's hard-earned links unless you carefully mark them with a "via" credit. The same applies to their girlfriends, boyfriends and members of their immediate family.
- Thou shalt not steal your design (except from Kottke).
- Thou shalt not lie on your weblog (seriously, that's bad).
- You shall not covet your neighbour's domain; you shall not covet your neighbour's html, nor his homemade CMS, nor his hosting arrangement, nor anything that is your neighbour's. Except maybe his traffic.
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
Blosxom not a "proper" CMS? Works great for me--I can't think of a single thing that I would like it to do that it doesn't! Honestly, that sort of sentiment really reminds me of people in the Java world who think that you're not doing "real" Java unless you're doing Enterprise Java. The problem with this idea is that it ignores the fact that not every business needs a behemoth three tier distributed system.
Similarly, some of us really don't have much of a need for a system like Moveable Type. And I'm saying this as someone who develops software and works with databases and the web day in and day out. It's not that I can't hack it with Moveable Type--it's just that I really don't see the point of having a complicated system with a database backend simply to post little bits of text to my personal website.
I know you were probably being tongue-in-cheek there, but I just think it needs to be said that simple does not necessarily equal bad! If more people realized that, I think there'd be a lot fewer failed IT projects out there :-).
→ Posted by: Buzz Andersen at June 14, 2003 6:04 PM
i'm with buzz. i've been using blosxom for 4 months now and it works like a charm.
→ Posted by: Denny Henke at June 14, 2003 7:45 PM
Very amusing. So many people have a copied the Kottke layout. Its structure has almost become a common trend. Good or bad thing? I don't know!
→ Posted by: Andy at June 14, 2003 9:52 PM
Drupal - the one true CMS.
→ Posted by: Tom Morris at June 15, 2003 3:56 PM
Science has theorized that for all matter there is an equal amount of anti-matter. It is my belief that this is also true of Web design. For every Kottke ripped design there are an equal number of anti-Kottke designs. I call this the Bizzaro-Kottke Theory.
→ Posted by: Eric J at June 16, 2003 7:08 AM
One thing Blosxom doesn't do is properly handle edits of already published posts, since it shunts them to the top of the blog again.
Phposxom doesn't have this problem and is
almost perfect for my needs.
I never understood this need to give credit, especially when the link you're crediting for is more than 2 layers removed for you.
As for stealing of design, I was actually going to "steal" your design, or at least let it inspire me.
→ Posted by: Martin Wisse at June 16, 2003 8:38 AM
Martin,
This is no longer a problem with Blosxom, as long as you use the entries_index plugin. That definitely used to be a frustration of mine, but not anymore.
→ Posted by: Buzz Andersen at June 16, 2003 3:46 PM
As tom sort of explains, we came up with these about 6 months ago (maybe longer). At the time bloxom was not a worthy CMS.
→ Posted by: cal at June 16, 2003 5:51 PM