Will’s Similiblog

I think I’ve finally come to some resolution re the issue of featuritis in my social learning platform – and decided to go the route of individual linked sites for specific functions.

For user-contributed news with social rating & commenting (Digg-like), I’ve played extensively with Pligg, Drigg/Drupal, and a custom platform hacked together in Drupal.  Drigg has evolved handsomely over the past several months, and the most recent releases are behaving very nicely, with the feature-sets that I need.  My current site, launching into production this week, adds a few bells & whistles to the basic Drigg/Drupal distribution.  I’ll document those here.

Editing (submission, voting, commenting) is restricted to authenticated users from a closed community, but you can view the site, at http://drigg.ncnm.edu.

I started with the standard Drigg/Drupal installation from
http://www.drigg-code.org/pages/download_and_install
- using the “express” installation, which bundles the Drigg-specific modules with a Drupal installation, and pre-configured database.  Just today I updated to the 9/25/08 release (NICE work on this, Tony!).  Setup is well-documented & went on without a hitch.

I’ll follow with some posts re my customizations & additions to the basic installation.

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