Perlmonks Blog

Greetings Monks,

I was wandering the Monastery, looking for something to do, or something to read, and I thought to myself "What if Perlmonks had a blog?".

Nothing fancy (Wordpress wouldn't be bad), just something that the Perlmonks community as a whole can write posts for and read. Here is how I see it:

We create the blog (ideas wanted)
Monks write posts for the blog
We create a group of Blog Editors to check over the posts (I volunteer)
We post at certain times of the month (ideas wanted)
We have fun with it!

So what do you think? Good idea? Bad idea? Comments? Concerns? Questions? Can we implement this?

--perl.j

Comment on Perlmonks Blog
Re: Perlmonks Blog by Anonymous Monk on May 14, 2012 at 19:36 UTC
Obligatory :) I think there should be a new Section on PerlMonks for Jobs/Modules/Quizzes/Perl6/Newbies/OffTopic/etc.	[reply]
Re: Perlmonks Blog by BrowserUk (Pope) on May 14, 2012 at 19:54 UTC
What would you see as the difference between a Blog entry and a Meditation?	[reply]
Re^2: Perlmonks Blog by perl.j (Pilgrim) on May 14, 2012 at 20:54 UTC
Honestly, that's a good question. I couldn't answer that... Kind of ruins my idea :P --perl.j	[reply]
Re: Perlmonks Blog by tobyink (Monsignor) on May 14, 2012 at 21:11 UTC
There is blogs.perl.org too. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]
Re^2: Perlmonks Blog by perl.j (Pilgrim) on May 14, 2012 at 23:21 UTC
But these aren't Perlmonks blogs, they're Perl blogs. --perl.j	[reply]
Re^3: Perlmonks Blog by Anonymous Monk on May 15, 2012 at 00:01 UTC
What is the difference?	[reply]
Re^3: Perlmonks Blog by Old_Gray_Bear (Chancellor) on May 15, 2012 at 00:43 UTC
Um, a distinction without a difference. Many Monks maintain a presence at blogs.perl.org as well. I personally have five or six blog/blog-equivalents that I routinely check. Would a Blog here add to my information band-width? Or, merely consist of (mostly) duplicated posting from somewhere else? ---- I Go Back to Sleep, Now. OGB	[reply]
Re^4: Perlmonks Blog by perl.j (Pilgrim) on May 15, 2012 at 10:45 UTC
Re: Perlmonks Blog by sauoq (Abbot) on May 15, 2012 at 12:06 UTC
So you want to get all the "amazing Perl programmers" (as described in some reply of yours) to post on a different site instead of this one? Or you want them to double their efforts and post on two sites? And your idea is to, maybe, have them do it on a site powered by a CMS written in PHP? Brill... `-sauoq "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";`	[reply]
Re^2: Perlmonks Blog by perl.j (Pilgrim) on May 15, 2012 at 18:46 UTC
I don't understand. The blog would be completely affiliated with Perlmonks. Also, just because this is Perlmonks doesn't mean everything we use is Perl. Think about it. Our markup is HTML, Javascript on our profiles, and I can almost guarantee this whole site wasn't written in Perl. --perl.j	[reply]
Re^3: Perlmonks Blog by Corion (Pope) on May 15, 2012 at 19:03 UTC
Your insight into what languages comprise this site is interesting. But as has already been pointed out to you, there is http://blogs.perl.org, where people loosely associated with Perl who want to blog can blog. There also is http://perlsphere.net/ for aggregating other Perl-people-related blogs. I don't see any value in adding yet another blogging platform here, especially seeing that even blogs.perl.org has to fight off spammers.	[reply]
Re^4: Perlmonks Blog by perl.j (Pilgrim) on May 15, 2012 at 19:11 UTC
Re^5: Perlmonks Blog by Corion (Pope) on May 15, 2012 at 19:29 UTC
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