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Implementing Scoop to Host User Blogs?
By The Dean of Cincinnati , Section Help! [] Posted on Tue Dec 21, 2004 at 12:00:00 PM PST

I am searching for some solutions to Cincinnati's Indie Media scene. I like Scoop, but I don't know if it can do what I'm looking for. In short, we would like a main news site for our Independent Media Network (indynet.org). But we would also like to encourage area bloggers to move their blogs over to our address. So, for example, we would like cincinnati.blogpost.com to become cincinnati.indynet.org. Is that type of url compatibility possible with Scoop? Could users still maintain distinct blogging identities, and even maintain their Google advertisements, if we were to be using Scoop?

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Implementing Scoop to Host User Blogs? | 1 comment (1 topical, 0 hidden)

Sounds interesting... Scoop would be well suited. (none / 0) (#1)
by hillct on Thu Dec 23, 2004 at 04:04:45 PM PST

You have two specific requirements. First, the URL redirection example you provide is a trivial apache issue, but more interestingly, you could implement user blogs sililar to the way LiveJournal.com does it where I could have a blog: hillct.cincinnati.indynet.org and you could have one with the URL: The_Dean_of_Cincinnati.cincinnati.indynet.org etc.

While no one has done this yet, indevidual user google ads or amazon associate links or pretty much any other ads could be implemented on a per 'User Diary' basis. This would be achieved by recording amazon associate ID and/or google ad HTML as a user preference item, which could then be retrieved and inserted on their diary pages.

Currently each blog would be formatted similarly. It would be interesting and certainly within the cababilities of Scoop to allow each diary to be presented using a Style Sheet of the author's chosing (or one they've created) which would offer the author significant control over the appearance of their blog while maintaining a sufgficiently consistant interface to the site visitors could go from one blog to the other without having to familiarize themselves with completely new interfaces, or create new userids for each blog.

Using scoop would also offer user comment listings, blog subscriotions and reply tracking. It sounds like an interesting project.

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