I decided that blosxom just wasn't quite doing it for me as far as blogging software goes. I wanted something that would provide the following features:
Timestamped entries (blosxom does this)
Easier formatting than
HTML (blosxom doesn't do this
)
Easier, web-based editing (blosxom is command-line text-based)
Easy linking to other posts and to website (blosxom does this, but using
HTML )
Tagged entries (blosxom doesn't do this)
Perusal by tags (blosxom doesn't do this)
The ability to amend entries after original edit (blosxom does do this)
Reading list entries (blosxom could do this, but not as easy as my custom-brewed scripts)
The ability to easily document projects or technical insights (
HTML isn't easy
)
A wiki/blog that doesn't need a database, or at worse uses sqlite (blosxom does this)
I had already used DokuWiki for various wiki needs, and after taking a look at some of the plugins available, I decided to give it a try as a blogging tool. After some experimentation in an offline environment, I was convinced it meets my needs better than blosxom. I ported my old blog entries, added this entry, and here we are! I hope you find it as much of an improvement as I do. Now I just need to move my reading list.