Giving blogs with Drupal
This is part of a larger, ongoing series which examines how – in 2005 / 2006 – you can give people blogs. Visit the contents page to see the lot (or suggest more content!) or grab the feed to keep up with new stuff!
How can you give blogs with Drupal?
Drupal allows you to very simply provide blogs for each member of a particular Drupal community, it’s not hard at all. The php system is pretty simply to set up by anyone with a rudimentary understanding and you’ll even get it available as an auto installer with a lot…
- Posted on: August 12th, 2005
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- Category: Just Blogging
Giving a Blog – a guide to providing blogs
I think that what we’ve been exploring up till now is how people use blogs & aggregation individually and how blogs act as alternative publishing / broadcasting media, whereas in 2005 – 2006 we’re going to start to have reconceptualise what exactly blogging is and in light of this what kind of multi-user blogging tools can best facilitate the uses of the technology in business, educational, community and other contexts.
To put it simply pre-2005 has been about ‘Getting a blog’, post-2005 will be about ‘Giving a blog’.
So, what I’m going to do here at Blogsavvy is to…
- Posted on: August 10th, 2005
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- Category: Just Blogging
edublogs news
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- Posted on: August 3rd, 2005
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There’s providing ‘blogs’ and thern there’s providing ‘BLOGS’
I’m no stranger to trying to set up freely available online services for people to use… I’m also no stranger to watching as a couple of people drag their feet in, have a look around and quietly disappear. As a well respected edublogger once suggested to me, we’re often guilty of designing a nightclub for what is really a pubfull of people, and while a pubfull can be great fun in a pub… in a nightclub it feels worryingly quiet.
edublogs.org, however, seems to have bucked the trend. At the time of writing this there are 125 blogs there that…
- Posted on: August 3rd, 2005
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State of the blogosphere – Hotting up but what with?
Another State of the Blogosphere address from David Sifry and it’s pretty huge.
Anyone seen a curve like that before…. I think you can guess where it’s heading!
What would be particularly interesting now would be a study of the subject matter / purpose of new blogs. Where have all the qualatative researchers gone? Anyone have a few months to spare?
Update: Comment from Dave below:
“Hey, we’re happy to give researchers access to our data, so if you know of any, please pass them on to me!
Dave “
Excellent… this would be an absolute goldmine to…
- Posted on: August 2nd, 2005
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- Category: Just Blogging

