Blog and organisation?
Mar 15 2006 23:26
Hey there
Nice blog you guys have (http://www.libcom.org/blog/) 
I really enjoyed finding this place for information about the revolt in France!
I thought about how you control it? Do you have your own database and server space somewhere og have you subscribed to some kind of service?
Iam from denmark, and me and (some of) my friends (different kind og anarchist and punks) have thought about creating our publishing blog (news, art etc.).
Also how do you organise (in whatever detail you feel like) ... are you from allaround Britain or just London? Do you use some kind of hierarki? What about texts? Do you talk about what to and what not to publish?
I hope you can spare me a moment. Blogging is new for me even though the Internet isnt
Regard fjulle
Mar 15 2006 23:40
#2
Glad you like the blog - it's just three days old so it's good to see people are finding it already. How did you come across it?
The blog is hosted with the rest of libcom.org with a hosting company. For the blog, we use wordpress software (which is free) - we also use other free/open source php/mysql software on the website:
geeklog (http://libcom.org/news)
drupal (http://libcom.org/library)
gallery.menalto (http://libcom.org/gallery)
myheadlines (http://libcom.org/news/feeds)
and phpbb for this forum.
And some other stuff as well.
There's an admin collective of nine people who keep the whole site running, and a larger team of people who work on different sections and submit content. The site is organised fairly informally - mainly on this forum although the technical/development stuff isn't viewable.
For some sections of the site, we have fairly strong criteria for what to publish - say news, where you can see our posting guidelines: http://libcom.org/news/staticpages/index.php?page=notes-posting-news
other sections like library we include as much as possible, including stuff we strongly disagree with if we think it's interesting or relevant to something else.
If you just want to set up a blog, something like blogspot or livejournal works fine. If you want a site with a few different sections in, I'd recommend a hosting company - hasweb.com is good, as are some others. You can get a lot of space and good features for much less than £5/month.
Mar 15 2006 23:47
#3
Don't forget that if you don't have hosting or database access, wordpress also offers free wordpress blogs on their servers.. which is handy except it limits ability to tweak the php code and css.. which might not be a problem unless you're a pedant like me
Mar 15 2006 23:48
#4
Yeah - or you can use blogspot...
Mar 15 2006 23:55
#5
I used blogspot until i discovered wordpress
Mainly because I prefer php and also I liked the categories/subpages functions
Mar 16 2006 00:03
#6
Yeah i use wordpress, but installed locally.
Mar 16 2006 09:06
#7
thanks for the answers. Ill try wordpress on my server
I found the link on the Danish indymedia (indymedia.dk) ...
Apr 6 2006 10:36
#8
The link to your site on indymedia.dk where put there because of your coverage of the france situation thought you might want to know that
Apr 6 2006 10:53
#9
Thanks thats great!
Oct 17 2007 14:13
#10
catch wrote:
drupal (http://libcom.org/library)
Maybe you could tell me which modules you have used structuring your library?
Oct 17 2007 14:22
#11
The modules we use more than anything else are:
taxonomy
views
content construction kit (cck)
panels
There are other little modules but those are the main ones that do most of the work.
Hi fjulle - welcome to the site.
Glad you found the blog informative - its a new project started in the last week. The blog is an automated piece of software (WordPress) which is free which is installed on our space and allows us to easily publish text. Libcom is hosted with an American commerical web company, tho one day we aspire to our own server!
Its getting quite complicated how the site works. There is a core of 9 people in the libcom collective who are based in London and Brighton, we have all known each other for some years. We produce the bulk of the content for libcom.org and the design etc. We carry out descisions collectively, online and face to face. We do discuss what to publish and what not to publish. However not with everything, as we understand and trust each others judegments. If we need to discuss something we do.
With the blog in particular - it was set up by us, but most of the content (i believe - its not actually what im working on at the moment) is submitted by a couple of great people who use these forums. They have access (along with some others) to a hidden forum here where we discuss site development issues.
Other parts of the site - for example news and library people are free to submit content to, some of which has to be approved by the libcom group, but there are also news editors and librarians who can add stuff directly who arent part of the collective.
hope that helps a bit, feel free to ask any more questions!