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All in all, apart from the obvious rhetoric point for democracy being served by the collaborative organization of information (which is valid), other advantages of blogs and wikis include the formation of communities revolving around areas of interest, and positive contributions to the 'information tag' game (trying to keep up with the news), especially where technology is involved.
Of course, they can never totally supplant central information dispensation efforts (news agencies, zines and portals), but they don't have to: they are designed to supplement such efforts and provide a modicum of control and feedback by the public.

if you want a faster, more stable alternative, try postnuke

it has all phpnuke offers, and more.

Stick with the PHPNuke forks, especially PostNuke, as the original is terrible - major lack of security, code uncleanliness (and hence a lack of extensibility), etc. Just ask Wayne Hunt (wayne at amiga dot org) his views on it - he had his site hacked over and over again while he used Nuke.

The PostNuke folks have been doing a great job of clearing up the code itself, a much better job than the phpWebSite guys at Appalacian State.

Being a Notes developer, I know that notes sucks on quite a number of grounds: cost, memory hogging, really large install, etc, etc. However, it is probably the fastest platform to develop high powered business workflow apps.

As far as content management... Domino.doc is pretty great, there is also a 3rd party web managemnt tool called Aptrix that I worked on an implementation of. both products are pretty great, but only if your business is large enough to warrant running Notes/Domino server in the first place. I mean, Post Nuke does basically the same thing as both products and is free (as in beer, as in GNU).

Of course there's now a better alternative PostNuke that is true GPL, with over 100 active developers from 35 countries.

PostNuke forked from PHPNuke at version 5, has been completely rewritten for most of the core code and has a lot better security etc. yet still maintains some backward compatibility with PHPNuke modules / themes etc.

> there probably *will* be a book called Slash for Dummies! :) Smiley, but I'm serious.

Actually I don't think there will be. Let's face it, slash requires (basically) full control of a box. There are other weblogs (e.g. postnuke) out there that you can install in 2 minutes on a providers' server. I can see a postnuke dummies book published, slash is more for people running big news sites.

Postnuke is a fork of PHPNuke with a focus on security and performance and is also dreadfully simple to setup. Still in alpha, but getting better.

Right now the Postnuke team is gearing up for a major release, .71, and from what I've seen of it so far, it is moving forward at a nice pace. I've anyone has ever been frustrated with the installation of Scoop, Slash, or PHPnuke, you might want to give postnuke a try.

PHP-Nuke has been closed again by its author. This has caused quite an uproar in the *Nuke community.

PostNuke, a fork from PHP-Nuke, is rapidly gaining popularity. I've been hacking at it for a while, and it's a very nice system.

PostNuke is a good example of a true collaboration that not only allows, but encourages individuals to participate at all levels. Meaning, it's even okay of you're not a programmer.

For those who don't know. PostNuke is a weblog / Content Management System (CMS). It offers full CSS support, HTML 4.01 transitional compliance throughout, an advanced blocks system, and is fully multi-lingual enabled. PostNuke is a fork of Francisco Burzi's PHP-Nuke ... in fact, the PostNuke project was started because of the closed open/source nature of PHPNuke.

PostNuke is a good example of a true collaboration that not only allows, but encourages individuals to participate at all levels. Meaning, it's even okay of you're not a programmer.

For those who don't know. PostNuke is a weblog / Content Management System (CMS). It offers full CSS support, HTML 4.01 transitional compliance throughout, an advanced blocks system, and is fully multi-lingual enabled. PostNuke is a fork of Francisco Burzi's PHP-Nuke ... in fact, the PostNuke project was started because of the closed open/source nature of PHPNuke.

that's right, that's why we're ADAMant about folks deepending on more than just a few open-sources for their information/interaction. what if VA rob et AL, gooes under? anyhow, we're here, As well as 100 or so "other" places, & we recommend that everybody consider having themselves GNUked, so the lights can remain on somewhere, no matter how bad the devastation from the ongoing fud0cide is. take a look at these guise, before we get around to GNUking them. if you want to help, call us.

well if time is peanuts, then that's what putting up this cite cost us. We're anxious to see these guise get nuked. we don't mind coughing up some more "peanuts" for that to happen.

Nothing but good GNUs to report. Doesn't look like there'll be many billyunheirs left after the GNU economy kicks in.

If you're not sure what the heck I'm talking about, here's a recent article in Linux.com that goes into some gory detail.

Best I can figure...if you need portal software, Postnuke or PHPNuke would work fine and can handle RSS and "Reputation" fine via slashdot like moderation. Either Nuke can receive or send RSS feeds, and it's much more robust than Reptile.

If one wants to do java and XML, Cocoon from apache is greatly suited to that task. I haven't seen portal software written for it.

Best I can figure from this project, they want to use some sort of decentralized authentication scheme and are calling it "Reputation." They are tied to some sort of goofy Sierra Reputation thing.

Best I can tell, people are desperate for a competitor to .NET, this isn't it. Slashdot, your companion site Freshmeat is for 0.0.1 software. I don't think even the author has figured out what Reptile is for.