RTP-area local music and culture

[Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>]

You were running a website in 1988?  Do tell.  I was surfing BBSes in 
1988 but nothing resembling the WWW.  It looks like the first stab at an 
HTTP protocol was in 1991, by Tim Berners-Lee:

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/Classic.html

rossi

Margaret Campbell wrote:
> Mmm.  Are you suggesting I should take this on?
>
> Just because I've run a come one, come all website for 17 years?
>
> Depends on what they're paying. [g]
>
>
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:28:52 -0800 (PST), Chris Calloway
> <ifoufo AT yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > --- Margaret Campbell <margaretc AT gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Lovely.
> > >
> > > One can always hope that a competent weblogger will
> > > take it over.
> >
> > Well, you can always post a comment to the blog
> > suggesting that. It might lend something if you
> > include just what you believe to be incompetent in the
> > current incarnation. Be sensitive that a) the
> > operators are the hired help, not the political base,
> > b) at least one of them is highly respected in the
> > leftie political blogging field nationwide, and c)
> > some of them actually play in bands you've likely been
> > to see.
> >
> > Although, I think competent and blogger are mutually
> > exclusive.
> >
> > The site is running of a content management system
> > (CMS). It's running off a grassroots promoted CMS
> > specifically constructed for progressive political
> > movements. As such, grassroots accessibility is
> > emphasized over competence. There are many of these
> > nationwide. Most of them popped out of the Dean
> > campaign, which itself had about four different ones
> > in operation at any one time in Burlington. The one
> > NCDP installed is the one with the most critical mass
> > behind it or the most hype, I can't decide which. The
> > blog part of it is an add-on component.
> >
> > I'm not really fond of it. My experience is that
> > competent CMSes won't even include a blog plug-in.
> > There's fissure in the CMS community over things like
> > whether blogs are CMS subsets, whether blogs make
> > acceptable substitutes for CMSes in some instances,
> > whether blogs can be super powered unto CMSes, whether
> > blogs are even worth bringing under a CMS umbrella,
> > and what blog models are democratic, if any.
> >
> > 3
> > -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors alt.music.chapel-hill --
> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene


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