RTP-area local music and culture

[Margaret Campbell <margaretc AT gmail.com>]

Bo is right.

The forum was on CompuServe.  And still is, even though it is now run
by AOL.  To date, mostly hands-off, except for the major hoo-rah when
it was moved to the web.


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:45:19 -0500, Chris Rossi
<nospam AT spacelabstudio.com> wrote:
> 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
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> >
> >
> >
> 
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