Friday, June 27, 2008

RIP Blosxom

First, the good news: Blosxom, a small and powerful Perl script with amazing blog capabilities, got a brief mention in Andrew Skinner's "Choose the best free CMS" article (Practical Web Design, July 2008, issue 177). I actually wrote a plugin or three for Blosxom back in the day, including a web visitor logger that someone in Japan used as the basis for their own plugin.

The bad news? Skinner incorrectly spelled it as "Bloxom." :( You know your branding/marketing campaign is pretty much dead when they can't even spell the name of your product correctly. It didn't even merit being listed in the feature comparison table with Wordpress or Movable Type.

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