Weblogs and Local News?

DrydenMaker asks: "I am the 'computer guy' for a local paper. We are looking into a revamp of our site, and, being a /. observer for many years, I see the slashdot format as useful for active, up-to-date local content as well. With the word getting arround about the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and USC's Annenberg School for Communication offering blogging classes I have some justification. I was looking for input on examples and justification. Do you, as Slashdot users, think a local Slashdot style newspaper would be successfull?"

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answer:

[grammar nazi]

"Do you, as Slashdot users, think a local Slashdot style newspaper would be successfull?"

No. As a Slashdot user I would say that a PostNuke (PHP based) site would be successful rather than a SlashCode site.

It doesn't even matter what your content is or who your community is. PostNuke = Success! I used PostNuke to successfully receive a PhD in English from a top University. My friend tried that with SlashCode and failed out after 2 semesters.

If you would like some hard numbers, my friend runs a PostNuke site for Gay RubberBand manufacturers. He receives 20 times the number of visitors as my other friend's SlashCode based Sports website. The friend with the Sports based site also had problems paying his ISP each month, whereas my gay Rubberband manufacturer friend always paid each ISP bill early.

Although, my comment doesn't clearly state that a Slashcode based site will be successful, it does tell you that you will have *more* success with a PostNuke. So why would you go with a Slashcode site?? Sarcasm aside, since a website's success has nothing to do with its audience and content, it clearly doesn't matter which content management system you use. What you are asking sounds like the following: I have a band. If we distribute MP3 songs, will be successful? If we distribute Ogg songs will we be more successful?