Compromise, glorious compromise
Just because I thought it would be fun, I set up a blog that other Columbia Law School students in my class could author. (I need to create some new authors today, actually.) And we ran into the inevitable problem of 'what is this blog for?' when someone decided to post an entry on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
So I think I've come up with a good techie compromise. If you view the blog, you can now see it in the full-bore politics mode, or in 'politics-lite' mode. I've not implemented a cookie that automatically transfers you to the blog of your choice yet, but that's stage two.
Now, watch--no one posts a politics article ever again. Oh well--part of my goals this summer is to have one last gasp at stretching my other skills before concentrating 100% on law.
Comments
Hmm, I'm thinking of doing something similar for next years students here. Nice to see you finding the issues ahead of time.
cyjtb bldqPosted by: M | June 17, 2003 06:03 AM
Random nerd question, but what are you running on the backend for the site?
Also, it is nice to know I won't be the only computer type person in the 1L class.
wbufgvjPosted by: Josh | June 21, 2003 01:45 PM
Hi.
If you mean what's the program, it's Moveable Type (http://www.moveabletype.org.) I have hosting on an Apache box, and it's using CGI, some PHP, and a mySQL database. There's a few modifications and plugins I'm using, mostly for RSS feeds and a couple bits of presentation.
vbjhugd ydoesPosted by: Anthony Rickey | June 21, 2003 01:52 PM