On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:56:33AM -0500, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
>If all I really want is my own personal blog, how feasible is it to use
>Woolgather as is? Is this a temporary swooning of yours, or more of the
>permanent kind? I don't have the time, energy or interest to reinvent this

Woolgather might be usable now, depending on what you want.  Right now
the Web pages just pull items out of the database and present them,
the Blogger API is supported in theory, and there are scripts for
creating new users and new weblogs.  There's no Web UI for registering
or editing users or weblogs, and no forms for logging in and posting
items.  If you want to use the Blogger API, or write Python scripts to
add new entries, then you probably could use it; if doing everything
through the Web is a requirement, then it won't be.

(Hmm... maybe I should just define extensions for creating users and
weblogs, and leave everything up to client software.  That would
certainly simplify my life.)

The swooning certainly isn't permanent, because I really want us to be
able to put up a MEMS weblog someday, and that means we need a really
simple and easy-to-use system.

--amk