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Digg copied . . . by you?

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the web community has gained a new tool for folks who want to start a user generated news site. i learned yesterday that the wikipedia founder is giving away web news sites to anyone who requests one. they are calling it openserving and it’s free. if you’ve ever used digg then you have an idea of what openserving is. the difference is that you (or anyone) can start your own news site and have your own URL with the software already installed and usable. this is similar to a blog or even a drupal news site. and, if you can’t come up with news of your own, you can easily add RSS feeds from others. it’s all run using open source software and users are even allowed to use advertising on their free sites and the user gets to keep 100% of the ad revenue generated. that’s pretty nifty for free.

i have many things to discuss on my blog, but i have to get through finals this week. stay tuned.

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3 Responses to “Digg copied . . . by you?”

  1. Rob Says:
    December 14th, 2006 at 6:09 pm

    All of these tools can be quite overwhelming, especially when someone tries to keep up on what’s new in the “tech” world. I’ve just finally gotten this WordPress thing down, and now there are a bunch of alternatives to blogs. Geeeeeez.

    As a sort of tangent, I’m the administrator of the MCTE web site, and some of the “higher ups” are suggesting that we use some type of CMS program for the web site. I’ve never used any of the CMS software, (hopefully I’m not too old to learn some new tricks!), so I was wondering if you had any suggestions.

    Oh, you can update my blog address. I’ve moved my blog to a new site.

    Thanks, Sean!

  2. Miguel Guhlin Says:
    December 16th, 2006 at 11:07 pm

    Rob, you can use a content management system…a blog is a simple type of CMS, but lacks the control you can provide to end-users over content.

    For a more robust CMS, you need something like Joomla, Plone or Drupal. Each of these is a content management system that enables you to do a lot more.

    Here’s a podcast I did some time ago that is introductory and recounts what we are doing in my school district:
    http://www.mguhlin.net/archives/2006/05/entry_1442.htm

    You can see campus examples at:
    http://lms.saisd.net/schools/cwc950/

    Department examples:
    http://lms.saisd.net/schools/dwc951/

    Best wishes,
    Miguel Guhlin
    Around the Corner-MGuhlin.net
    http://www.mguhlin.net
    http://itls.saisd.net/blog

  3. sean Says:
    December 18th, 2006 at 11:08 am

    Thanks for the information, Miguel.

    Rob, I’ll update your blog right now . . . and I’ll check it out as well.

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