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by Phillip Pearson.
Original Post: Happy first birthday to Salon Blogs
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I first heard about Salon Blogs via Rogers Cadenhead. He guessed (after an announcement by Dave Winer) that Salon was about to offer a blogging service in partnership with UserLand Software. Soon afterwards, the one true b!X found this test weblog on the blogs.salon.com domain.
Jason Kottke noticed this pretty quickly, bringing several hundred visitors to the site with the comment "has the server been hacked already?". Heh.
Suddenly, the page disappeared behind a password prompt, so I wrote a script to let me update it a bit easier and started leaving messages for whoever knew the password. I got it to load its stylesheet off my own site, so I knew that someone was reading.
And now, here we are. The script that started off as a way to leave messages to the unknown developers has become bzero. Rogers has moved off pycs.net onto his own domain, but pycs.net is still pretty active. I haven't touched the Python Community Server code for a long time, but Georg Bauer has been doing a great job there. My Blogging Ecosystem is coming up for an update Real Soon Now (click on the links in the green box on the right hand side to see the current state of things). Now, my main 'hobby project' is the Internet Topic Exchange. (Did you know you can use it to create a FOAF file?)
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