Sunday, December 05, 2004
My ideal personal publishing portal

Been thinking about the blog, and where I might like it to go in the future, and the one feature I just keep thinking about is wiki functionality.  For my uses, I think it would be a natural fit.  There are already quite a few bliki's out there, so I figure there has to be a few packages that might be worth checking out. 

So I started searching, and found a few options.  I found that some people use some WikiTalk to get FlexWiki to act as a blog.  Interesting idea, but I can't see myself ditching .Text for that.  I found a couple other bliki's, but nothing that seemed to stand out, until I found SnipSnap.  SnipSnap looks really interesting.  I'm certainly not convinced, but I'm going to play with it for a bit to see how it is.  It's not .net, though, so it will be a hard sell either way (anyone know a cheap router that does forwarding based on hostname?). 

In either case, my research yielded all kinds of crazy requirements and ideals for a system I wish I could just download.  I'd like to say I'd build it, well hell, maybe I will. 

• Must have a blog.  Full support for all the various syndication and API standards. 
• Multiple users, each who has their own blog.
• Each blog can be skinned and modified independently.
• All blogs share common wiki.
• Blog entries have categories.
• Blog posts use wiki dialect.
• Each blog has articles.
• Ability to attach files to wiki or blog pages.
• Ability for wiki sections to be marked private/roles based access.
• Ability to publish wiki page to blog or article.
• Winforms app that works like notepad that stores away wiki pages to be “synced“ later.
• Would be nice if wiki was blog context skinnable.
• Blogs have comments that turn off in n days.
• Color my code for me please.

The list got a little longer in type then it was in my head.  I could have kept going too.  Either way, anyone know of any other bliki's I should check out?