Blosxonomy User Manual

Version 0.2

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. Configuration
4. Creating a Flavour
5. Posting
6. Contributing to Blosxonomy

Introduction

Blosxonomy is a very lightweight Blosxom like blogging system written in Ruby, and designed around four core ities: simplic-ity, taggabil-ity, extensibil-ity and compatibil-ity. Visit blosxonomy.com for more information.

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This document outlines installing Blosxonomy 0.6 from scratch

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Interested in Blosxonomy, but not quite sure? If you're an existing pyBlosxom user, you can install Blosxonomy in parallel, without needing to change anything about your existing set up! That way you can give Blosxonomy a test run with no risk to your site.

Why Switch?

Folksonomy is an extremely powerful concept that allows relationships between entities to grow naturally, instead of being defined. I've recently written some plugins for pyBlosxom that enable Folksonomies for it - but in Blosxonomy, it's a central concept. The power and flexibility of tagging is tremendous, and while it may seem on the surface as just having "multiple categories", you'll discover that with Blosxonomy, you can do much much more.

That having been said, Blosxonomy is very young - and not quite full featured as far as blogging goes. If you regularly blog via XML-RPC or use other advanced blogging technologies, then Blosxonomy is not ready for you.

If you're like me, and you like simplicity and power - you're going to love Blosxonomy.

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