Have you ever wanted to test out a script before you went through the hassles of installing it on your server? OpensourceCMS to the rescue! Try out some of the PHP/MySQL based free and open source software systems such as Geeklog, b2, Nucleus, pMachine, Textpattern and many others. Via Jasmeet in the comments on Jason's site.
Speaking of Jason, there is a new pinging method available for Blogrolling and you can test it out here!
3 | Christine
OOPS! That was posted right as the case I was working on last month was heading to trial and I fell behind in my blog reading. Not now though – now I use an RSS reader and I am fed my blog posts all the time. It's GREAT!
4 | adam
Thanks for pointing out the new blogrolling pinger. Now I must convince friends who don't want to be listed on weblogs.com to at least ping blogrolling. I was sorely tempted earlier today to start removing people on my blogrolls who I can't check-up on via blogrolling. Patience won out in the end, and I see that it was a good thing.
In sort of the same vein, I think there needs to be a widespread campaign to get people to set up newsfeeds of with full entries. I set up Syndirella today after ditching Feedreader, and now RSS feeds with only excerpts bother me more than ever.
Anyway, many thanks to Christine for pointing out Syndirella to me again — it has come a long way since I had tried it last.
5 | Jennifer
YAY FOR JASON! I was desperately WAITING for him to come out with that. I don't ping weblogs.com (too many psychos hang around there looking for blogs to "troll" on) but now I'll ping blogrolling. (I did it this morning and it worked like a charm!) WOOHOO!!!
6 | Tina
LOL! Too many psychos…
So then what does that say about the fact that I found Jasmeet through weblogs.com? (For some reason, at that time I was seeing how high my blog was on the list…haha)
And that he and I fell in love…
I'm not defending weblogs.com, but if not for that site, I never would have found Jasmeet…. I wouldn't be as happy as I am right now…
I guess all sites have their good and bad points…
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