Citizen Media Meets Mainstream Media on SanAntonioNews.com
Recently rolled out alpha version .04 of SanAntonioNews.com, an experimental local news site. This version of the site takes the lessons in RSS feed splicing and blending learned in alpha version .03 and plugs them into an open source publishing platform. I chose Wordpress as the platform for this version mainly to see how it holds up as a lightweight Content Mangement System. So far so good.
For the template and CSS, I started with the Identification Band Quadruplets 4 Column Wordpress Theme and modified from there. Even though the modifications made to the original design were somewhat significant, many thanks are in order to the author of the Quadruplets theme for sharing his work. There currently seems to be pretty slim pickings to choose from out there as far as four column Wordpress templates go. His work proved to be a very helpful starting point.
On a related note, if you think you might be outgrowing your blogging platform and are thinking about a more robust CMS, take a look at OpenSourceCMS.com, a site that lets you try out many CMS platforms in one place. OpenSourceCMS.com isn’t related to the The Open CMS Project, which is an interesting JAVA XML based open source Content Management System.
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Great post. I'm a LAMP Developer and I was wondering if anyone has been able to build their own GSM server. That is, a server that can utilize a GSM modem to send direct, local messages to cell or IP phones. I'm working for a not-for-profit health care organization and have a suite of applications that I'd like to improve communication turn around time by sending SMS messages our nurses IP phones and our Physician's cell phones. I've found a ton of services that are all cost prohibitive and was hoping for an open source solution. Comment on Open Source SMS Text Messaging Application by Roy
My son's teacher would like to be able to send short text messages to students. I'm looking for a simple solution that would allow him to broadcast to 20-40 students a "reminder" about class info. This article looks very promising, but It appears to be server based. Can this type of program be modified to run run stand-a-lone, ie flash drive, desktop...? comment feed...