NewsLog

Back in May of 1999 I thought it would be cool to post daily news updates to my home page in a journal-like format in reverse chronological order. This emerging web page style later came to be known as a weblog or blog. I developed a small Perl program that ran under mod_perl or as a CGI to facilitate posting and archiving of older posts. Later I added the ability to syndicate posts to mod_virgule sites such as Advogato or robots.net. I called this creation NewsLog.

NewsLog is in need of a major rewrite these days. I'd like to make it template-based to make customization easier and I'd like to support more forms of syndication including RSS. But it does work and I still use it on a daily basis for my own home page.

newslog-1.4.0.tar.gz [17KB]

Changelog

Here are a few examples of what it can do:

• NCC home page
• Nick Jaffe's home page
• Billy Rawlett's Gossip page
• My home page, the syndicated copy at Advogato.org, and the syndicated copy at robots.net

If you use NewsLog, send me the URL of your site and I'll list it here as an example.

License: All software on this page is Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.