Comments on: Cityblogs - WPMU & developing blogging communities based on physical / spatial relationships

By: deflate » cityblogs

deflate » cityblogs — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 10:06:51 +0000

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Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:38:56 +0000

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By: Marcin

Marcin — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:34:07 +0000

That’s exactly what I’m trying to do in Poland. Good luck.

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:56:57 +0000

Hi James,
I referenced your post in an article I wrote back at my blog. Please take a look at it and let me know how the concept introduced here is working for you. I am also going through some of your other material on community blogging … good stuff!
Drop me a note back at my blog http://iblog2.info if you have any feedback.

Thanks for the great content on this site.
Be well,
Jose

By: James

James — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:04:25 +0000

Grab yourself a blog at http://edublogs.org Doug and tell me what is easier

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:24:43 +0000

re worpdress mu and the state of development I wonder if you’d be better off running the standard wordpress but creating multiple copies as required to new bloggers?

The install looks pretty easy so its not as big a hassle as trying to maintain another version of wpress. What do you think?

doug

By: James

James — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:53:09 +0000

Hi Michael,

Sounds like a fantastic project but I’d encourage you to consider providing blogs for individuyals and then aggregating the results using something like FeedWordPress… as oppopsed to a group blog.

You’re right in that WPMU would work well there and, to be honest, getting a simple hosting account isn’t going to break the bank.

Cheers, James

By: Michael Joyce

Michael Joyce — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:06:45 +0000

I have started a blog loosely tied to our neighborhood association. Loosely tied in that it supplements the ‘official’ association web page (http://www.dundee-memorialpark.org ) , but some association board members are also authors on the blog. Things have started off slowly over the summer. I wanted to add a sizable chunk of content before large numbers of visitors come to look around. The association meetings start up again this month, so I expect a flood of visitors to come.

I intended the blog to be a place to share thoughts, resources, and discuss local issues. A couple of local issues – parking pressure & a proposed parking garage, change in neighborhood businesses, efforts to downzone high density residential properties, and pending historic district status – will make the blog relevant. Also, the association web site is stagnant. A blog provides a simple & dynamic method for sharing content.

I decided to use a free blog service, blogsome.com, to begin. Blogsome uses WordPressMu, BTW. I have been thinking of biting the bullet to pay for hosting. Implementing WPmu would be a great way to open up the site to more voices and allow contributors to control the look & feel of their posts.

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By: James

James — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 05:53:02 +0000

Hi Jony,

Looks like the new WPMU uses regular WP themes, thanks for the offer though! Have a go at http://edublogs.org if you like.

Cheers, James