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A PostNuke FIS Blog

In keeping with the requirements of the course FIS1311, I've set up and configured this blog and web CMS for discussion of topics relating to information studies, computing technology and Internet culture. In the interest of providing myself something relevant to talk about, I decided not to create this blog using a popular blogging service such as Blogster (a good service though it may be), and instead used the open source Content Management System PostNuke for the purpose. Postnuke is that which you see before you here.

I'll provide some commentary on the perceived merits of the PostNuke CMS solution as I continue to work with it, while simultaneously posting what seem to be topical stories in recent events pertaining to information systems and information culture as the course continues. - Aaron K.

   Review: Panteli's "Trust in Global Virtual Teams"
Posted by askimberley on Sunday, March 05, 2006 - 04:16 PM (768 Reads)
Coursework
A review of the article "Trust in Global Virtual Teams" by Niki Panteli, accessed on Ariadne, which I have considered in the context of its relevance to the discussion to open source development methods.


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   Hosting a PostNuke Blog on the Cheap
Posted by askimberley on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 03:37 PM (657 Reads)
Computing and Technology
Given that I have chosen to host my FIS blog on a commercial hosting service, the service which I have opted to use for this purpose bears some mention. Godaddy is among the cheapest of major commercial hosting companies to offer a relatively full-featured hosting solutions (i.e., web, mail, database, CGI), and its offering is really only remarkable for its slightly cheaper price for basic services, as compared to the majority of its competitors. At $3.95USD/month for mail, PHP, 1 MySQL database supported by PHPMyAdmin and domain registration presently for free, it's at least on par with the general mass of dirt cheap virtual hosting options available right now.

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   Daily Show Rips Off Uncyclopedia
Posted by askimberley on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 08:13 AM (444 Reads)
Computing and Technology
Popular examples of corporate media benefiting from the fruits of collaborative media have now entered the realm of satire, with the Daily Show borrowing an idea from Uncyclopedia.

An old featured article which has made its rounds on the web, War on Terra was used as the title for a segment on global warming in a recent show which may presently be viewed at Comedy Central's Daily Show homepage.

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   Project Profile Assignment: Slashdot.org
Posted by askimberley on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 03:26 AM (1207 Reads)
Coursework
Slashdot.org is a web community and information technology news resource which constitutes one of the earliest examples, if not the earliest example, of blog journalism to have appeared on the World Wide Web. Indeed, at the time of Slashdot's creation in 1997, the terms 'weblog' and the abbreviation 'blog' did not exist in any notable popular usage.

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   Using PostNuke
Posted by askimberley on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 03:02 AM (605 Reads)
PHP
The experience of working with PostNuke for the first time has been a largely positive one. The knowledge required to implement a generic PostNuke install is nothing more than the experience necessary to implement Gallery or PHPBB and a plethora of configuration options are nicely tied together by the admin interface, with direct dabbling in config files being completely unnecessary for most purposes. Getting the most out of it in the long run and fully configuring a template to work well with a specific set of desired functions would seem to require some dabbling in PHP or at least cutting and pasting of relevant snippets of code, but the basic install and module configuration is simple as can be.

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