Monday, June 5, 2006

Lyceum -- another blogging possibility Want to host a couple thousand weblogs? The folks at University of North Carolina's http://ibiblio.org have picked up a grant to help support Lyceum, a blogging software project they've had in the works awhile. Lyceum apparently adds even more user-friendliness to the WordPress blogging system, which already gets great reviews. Ibiblio is located in the School of Information and Library Science at UNC, but started out as UNC's Sunsite, an early large-scale distributor of open source software. It also ran the first Web access point I used regularly, the since-departed "LaUNChpad," which BYTE magazine's BIX online service put on its user menu about 14 years ago. I was in Rhode Island at the time and had no UNC affiliation, yet. A few years later I wound up a grad student in Chapel Hill. Sunsite's director, Paul Jones, didn't have any job openings, but asked for an HTML version of my resume... which became my first Web page, and got me my first online job. And after I took a couple of courses with him, Paul agreed to be on my dissertation committee. Enough personal-connection disclaimers. Here's what Paul has to say about Lyceum. (At least it's what the press release about its new grant says he said.) "As the Internet has grown and evolved, it has become a place of collaboration, a forum for discussion and a medium used to exchange information at the click of a button," said Paul Jones, director of ibiblio. "This growth is exemplified by the open source software, blogs and other communication tools being used every day on the Web. What better way to expand on enhancing these opportunities to share ideas and thoughts than to offer software to make it easy to create and install blogs?" 3:51:00 PM

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