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Weblogs.or.id
Wednesday, July 17, 2002
As I hinted at a few days ago, I'm getting ready to launch a weblog hosting site focused on Indonesian webloggers. The site will be located on a server on the IIX and will be localized into Indonesian. The goal is to encourage self-publishing on the web in Indonesian about things relevant to Indonesians. A significant sub-goal is to foster healthy communication between members of various people groups and religions in Indonesia. It will be located at www.weblog.or.id. Right now that is just a static page, but soon (a month or two?) it will be the jumping off point for Indonesian webloggers
Wednesday, July 17, 2002One of the key decisions that I'm facing is what software to use for weblogs.or.id. Radio is out, sorry Dave. A huge percentage of internet users in Indonesia use internet cafes (warnets) so we need a tool that is server based. Some possibilities are: Manila, MT, Drupal, Greymatter, Pitas, B2, LiveJournal, etc.. What others should I consider? I'm trying to draw up my criteria right now. Here's the short list, lots of this is obvious stuff. Sorry for the somewhat random order:
- Server based (user data stored on server, editing via any internet cafe)
- OSS prefered (I'd like to gather together a very small team on this side of the world that can contribute)
- In active development (no dead tools that I have to revive)
- RSS/synication
- Blogger/metaweblog APIs support
- themes/templates
- Standard weblog format (calendar, dated entries, reverse chrono, ???)
- categories
- automatic archiving
- commenting
- support for multiple authors (would be nice)
I'll think of lots more. The choices are a little overwhelming. I don't want to make the wrong choice, but I do want to choose.
10:15:06 AM 
As I hinted at a few days ago, I'm getting ready to launch a weblog hosting site focused on Indonesian webloggers. The site will be located on a server on the IIX and will be localized into Indonesian. The goal is to encourage self-publishing on the web in Indonesian about things relevant to Indonesians. A significant sub-goal is to foster healthy communication between members of various people groups and religions in Indonesia. It will be located at www.weblog.or.id. Right now that is just a static page, but soon (a month or two?) it will be the jumping off point for Indonesian webloggers
9:21:17 AM