Where can I interact with people interested UI design for group blogs?

April 26, 2004 3:52 PM

Is there an interactive site, preferably a wiki, where people can suggest & discuss community-blog design & features? (more inside)

I've a novice programmer who's currently halfway through a Scheme course (although I've aced college C courses and worked through most of K&R). Sounds ambitious, but I'm planning for my first learning project to be a group blog, like this one, using {Perl | PHP} & MySQL.

I've plenty of ideas for feature sets and UI. Some of them are undoubtedly naive/idealistic/inefficient, some ubiquitous and some good & unique. Where can I interact with people who are discussing these kinds of issues?

posted by Gyan to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

Clearly, someone needs to start a group blog on this... maybe you're the guy to do it.
posted by weston at 9:31 PM on April 26, 2004

I'd be interested in this too.
posted by holloway at 9:44 PM on April 26, 2004

Many2Many isn't very interactive, but has great posts and occasionally interesting action in the comments.
posted by fuzz at 3:46 AM on April 27, 2004

Gyan, I *need* a collaborative weblog for academic research. I could not find exactly what I am looking for (somewhere between MeFi and MoJo), I am still searching. Contact me if you are interested.

To answer your question, here is a link: opensourceCMS. The "forums" section might help you.
posted by MzB at 5:11 AM on April 27, 2004

Response by poster: I thought it would come to this (rolling my own, i.e. the group blog to discuss the group blog about to be made). Since I do have a 800MB/40GB account, I'll do it. Suggestions for wiki software? I'm thinking Mediawiki ver. latest ought to do fine, but please correct if need be. I'm going to spend a couple of days to map this out.


MzB, I've been to that site before and it's not what I'm looking for.

fuzz, neither is M2M.

To give a more detailed (but still rough) idea, here's the proposal I put forward on MetaWiki.
posted by Gyan at 8:42 AM on April 27, 2004

Gyan, I'm interested in following your project and maybe even helping out, depending. Email me or post a URL!
posted by weston at 11:08 AM on April 27, 2004

Response by poster: I'll plan and set up the wiki site on my account by the end of first week of May.

I'll post a URL.
posted by Gyan at 12:48 PM on April 27, 2004