I suspect that's enough to work with for now. What I've been listing are basically the features I want my Python based weblogging/content-management program to have. I'm now going to try to rate them each for importance and for difficulty of implementation. Then, I'll get to work implementing them, one by one. If any of y'all have thoughts about them--how they should look, how they should work, what I might want to think about in building them, feel free to add your comments.
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01:13:12 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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If someone does break in and edit a blog, it should be easy to restore it.
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12:45:25 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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There should be enough security to keep someone from casually editing a blog that doesn't belong to them.
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12:28:01 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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It should be possible to manage journals.
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12:27:21 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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It should be possible to manage other pages on a site, besides a blog.
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12:26:57 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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It should be possible to do a multi-user blog.
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12:26:48 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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It should be possible to manage multiple blogs through the same system.
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12:26:27 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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It should have an integrated commenting system.
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12:08:47 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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There should be a version that requires no CGI. This would store all blog data locally, but publish to a server through ftp (or scp?). (very low priority.)
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12:07:42 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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The blog entry data file should be editable directly through a text editor. (Low priority.)
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12:06:10 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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Blog entries should be editable through the web interface.
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12:06:00 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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Blog entries should be editable through the front-end program.
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12:05:37 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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Blog rendering configuration should also be editable from the front-end program.
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12:05:12 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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Settings for blog rendering should be kept in an easily edited configuration file.
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12:03:51 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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HTML for blog rendering template should be kept in an easily edited text file.
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12:02:00 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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Store raw blog data, and automatically render html for front page and archives when publishing.
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12:00:28 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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Add entries through a simple front-end program with text editor.
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12:00:04 AM,
Saturday 3 November 2001
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Add entries through a web interface.
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11:59:33 PM,
Friday 2 November 2001
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Add entries through a simple command-line interface (like bloglet).
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11:59:01 PM,
Friday 2 November 2001
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PyBlog user stories follow.
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11:57:39 PM,
Friday 2 November 2001
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Sometimes even Jason the Kottke posts AIM logs to his blog.
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10:09:23 PM,
Friday 2 November 2001
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Ambrose Bierce says:
Cabbage, n.: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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03:36:46 PM,
Friday 2 November 2001
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I'd go check out Kerne's ports.pl script, but his latest redesign has rendered his website virtually unnavigable. I'm just sayin'.
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02:21:48 PM,
Friday 2 November 2001
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The Invisible Library collects books that appear only in other books.
[via Textism]
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01:49:14 PM,
Friday 2 November 2001
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At 24, I feel older than I should, and perhaps not so wise.
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01:47:25 AM,
Friday 2 November 2001
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She was into S&M and Bible studies, not everyone's cup of tea.
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01:12:35 AM,
Friday 2 November 2001
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304 lines. It seems my tetris skills have returned.
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10:09:01 PM,
Thursday 1 November 2001
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"Your pairing of a meat-free burrito and all those fatty toppings indicates a dangerous ability to live with illusions."
Find out what your favorite burrito says about you, and read a number of burrito related texts, all at The Burrito Page--an entertaining site, if somewhat marred by a mention of Taco Bell.
[via Derek Powazek]
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06:31:35 PM,
Thursday 1 November 2001
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So I've been looking for a web site search tool, for something we're doing at work. Google came up with Search Tools, which appears to be a good solid general reference site about site search tools, from a consultant who specializes in such things. It's got a nice clean design, and appears to have good information. Sometimes I really love the web.
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02:26:52 PM,
Thursday 1 November 2001
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Does the writing seem better on well designed sites because they're so much prettier, or is it just that people who care enough to write well on the web also pay attention to how their pages look?
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02:17:55 PM,
Thursday 1 November 2001
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Newer Cocktails.
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02:16:36 PM,
Thursday 1 November 2001
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Why not visit the Red Meat Construction Set this Halloween?
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03:26:31 PM,
Wednesday 31 October 2001
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Quining Qualia, which I suspect I ought to read one of these days, quotes the definition of quine from Daniel Dennet's Philosophical Lexicon. The jargon file has another definition. And of course, it's easy to find pages on Quine himself. But what I was looking for was a clear definition of Douglas Hofstadter's meaning of 'quine', and that proved much harder to find, even though it is in my experience the most common.
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02:35:20 PM,
Wednesday 31 October 2001
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On the contrary, I have the scariest costume here.
(Or in other words: I'm trying to come up with a different plausible response to give to each person today who asks why I'm not in costume. I'll keep a record of them here.)
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11:37:55 AM,
Wednesday 31 October 2001
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The Earth as a whole, and in particular the whole population of living things on Earth, exhibits various kinds of structure at a large scale, even though it is not operated on by natural selection. Is this structure not so complex as to require a pressure like natural selection for its development? Or is the action of natural selection on living things sufficient to produce structures of this scale? Or is there some other explanation?
(This is partially a response to the so called Gaia Hypothesis. So far as I understand the idea, 'hypothesis' really isn't the right word for it, but it is at least an interesting observation.)
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05:41:28 PM,
Tuesday 30 October 2001
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It wasn't important to my childhood--indeed, I was 19 years old when it happened--, but Reno vs. ACLU is a case that is important to me now, and indeed, to anyone else with a web page. This is the case that struck down the bulk of the Communications Decency Act.
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03:43:40 PM,
Tuesday 30 October 2001
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