On my quest for a decent and reliant Blogging-software I found WordPress : easy to install and upgrade even for non-geeks. It’s quite young – available in version 1.0.1 – being a fork of b2(php/Sql). It comes with a vibrant community (with hacks, styles) and a really nice interface in the backoffice with some unique features.

A colleague and student of mine did a brief analysis(PDF, 400KB) of the K-Collector . The latter is an attempt to bring the culture of blogging to corporate settings. The focus is on aggregating topics given by the individual authors in contrast to assigning topics thru a taxonomy or thesaurus. The paper is only available in German

This is what I’m thinking about versus free classification – the context is project on using weblogs for information- and knowledgemanagement.

How to Make a Faceted Classification and…
How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web [owrede_log]

I was asked to by a member of the Radio Userland advisory board. So if you read this an have ideas what has to be done to make Radio Userland competitive and fun using it, please send me an email or leave a comment.

I will report from time to time, here.