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Trying Scrawl: a Plone blog-content engine

Posted by admin at Jun 20, 2009 07:00 AM |
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...in which we look into updating the blog-portal at Swiftpassage

Trying Scrawl: a Plone blog-content engine

Huh?

One of the annoyances of using the blog at Swiftpassage has been the fact that is really isn't very blog-like in the use of it. It's been frankly annoying preparing entries, and uploading content, and compared to the likes of Facebook, LiveJournal or Twitter, it just hasn't really held its own because of the "ease of use" issue. It's also lacked features that a blog usually has.

 

So, I've been exploring content-addons available for Plone, and have come across Scrawl. This is my first effort at using it, and I don't really know if it will prove its worth.

 

Let's see!

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Posted by admin at Jun 20, 2009 08:02 AM
Well, it was very easy to initiate the entry, add a photo, and publish it. It auto-magicaly turned on comments, which used to require futzing around clicking radio-buttons to make happen. And it seems very 'LiveJournal-like' in its presentation. It hasn't added the content to the News Items column, but I suspect that it could be configured to do so.

It's got a nice rhythm, it's easy to dance to, I give it an '8'...