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Macworld Review of Blogs -- GL Recommended

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Monday, June 09 2003 @ 08:37 am EDT

What? None of the Nukes were in this article?

Were there any features in particular in the other three which you thought caused them to be ranked higher?

Macworld Review of Blogs -- GL Recommended

Authored by: thewise1himself on Monday, June 09 2003 @ 02:00 pm EDT

Nope, none of the 'Nukes were reviewed; couldn't say why...

As for rankings, I forget the exact pairings, but they recommended Geeklog as 1 of 2 systems for "building a thriving online community". pMachine was recommended as 1 of 2 for more business-oriented CMS needs. It seemed to me those were the 2 "audiences" they considered, though I don't have the magazine in front of me at the moment to confirm.

I do remember some of the specific "features" they evaluated, and I'd have to say the top 3 that I could easily see others cite as shortcomings of GL (compared to some of the other systems and based upon feedback reported here at geeklog.net) would be:

thorough, easy-to-read / use documentation / user manual (GL was specifically mentioned as having "less than stellar" documentation compared to pMachine)
desktop application for posting content
easy to set up / install (pMachine got raves for having an easy "Setup Wizard")

Please note, these aren't my gripes, so please don't flame me.. I'm just reporting on what I read. ;)

Macworld Review of Blogs now online

Authored by: maigoofy on Wednesday, June 18 2003 @ 01:12 pm EDT

I thought some people wanted to read the original article.

http://www.macworld.com/2003/07/features/putweblogstowork/

Macworld Review of Blogs -- GL Recommended

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Monday, June 09 2003 @ 05:17 pm EDT

PHP Nuke is not a blog. I am assuming Blogs consitute the abilty to capture community comments like this. All phpNuke sites don't offer the comment to each article that GL does.

Macworld Review of Blogs -- GL Recommended

Authored by: thewise1himself on Monday, June 09 2003 @ 05:51 pm EDT

Well, I know that at least one of the "contenders" (iBlog) doesn't allow commenting at all, so I don't think they were using it as a defining element of what makes a 'blog.

They did reference it as a feature (which GL got credited for as (IIRC) the only package on the list that allows for Threaded comments; the others are all "flat", assuming they even supported comments).

You could always inquire of Macworld how they came up with the list they did...

Macworld Review of Blogs -- GL Recommended

Authored by: rawdata on Tuesday, June 10 2003 @ 12:46 am EDT

If you test out phpNuke, you'll see it does have commenting capability for stories and polls as do all the rest of the Nukes. Some sites may not activate this but it does have this ability. I don't know...maybe they don't run very well on Macs.

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