Only a couple of more evenings of work are needed (touch wood!) on WP-United for phpBB3.

We’re getting pretty close, and it’s looking pretty good

For the initial release, I have tried to maintain feature parity with the phpBB2 version as far as possible. However, there will be a few differences — some by necessity, and a few improvements thrown in along the way. Here are the main ones: (More…)

Community blogging is nothing new… at least not when compared with the timescale of the existence of the “blogoshphere”. But its potential has yet to be fully tapped.

“Community Blogging” means different things to different people. Some are concerned with the natural emergence of communities in a sea of otherwise discrete and disparate blogs. The proliferation of bookmarking and social networking sites are testament to this phenomenon. Others see community blogs as location-based groupings of people. Witness the rise of the “ists”.

However, it is a third, more expansive definition that interests me the most: leveraging an existing online community to create a blogging platform with an instant audience. (More…)