Gregory J. Smith wrote in to announce the availability of an AppleScript that will help you migrate your MT entries into a Blosxom blog. You can read about it here and download the script locally here (I merely copy/pasted Gregory's text into AppleScript, so I make no warranty or promises!).

UPDATE. Gregory wrote to say that you can always download the latest version of the script from his site. He's also said he might have a few more to post so you can look for those, too. :)

First of all I owe Lee Underwood a huge apology for not posting this... what, just over a month ago? When he first sent the file? So Lee, I'm sorry about that. I wasn't even cool about writing back with lame excuses. So without further excuse, here is Lee's excellent PHP script for adding a comment form to your Blosxom blog.

ADDING THE PHP COMMENT FORM TO BLOSXOM
Lee Underwood
http://www.shamar.org/weblog/

I wanted to add comments to my Blosxom blog but did not want to have them posted on the site. Originally, I just posted a link to a generic comment form located on the site. However, one of the problems was that I did not know which post the writer was referring to unless it was specifically mentioned.

Eventually, I found a small PHP script written by sws-tech.com <http://www.sws-tech.com/scripts/tellafriend.php>. It was originally created for a "tell a friend" script but I adapted it for use with comments from the Blosxom blog.

The set-up is pretty easy and you don't need a database. You just need to make sure that you can run PHP scripts on your Web site. If you're not sure, check with your Web host techs.

(You can download the file, which includes a file with detailed instructions on how to install the script and the PHP script itself, right here)

I found this excellent list of Blosxom derivatives. It's a great list from a great site. For convenience I'm repeating their list below.

blosxom starter kit
blosxom starter kit version barijaona
ModBlosxom
Posy
blojsom (as Seth Milliken points out in the comments, blojsom has switched to a database structure, so it might not count now)
mod_blosxom
Phposxom
Blosxom.PHP
PHPBlosxom
PyBlosxom
lily
7blosxom
10122038
umekomiblog
Lisp Blosxom
Blosxonomy

Is anything missing?

Though written a year ago, Greg's very basic installing blosxom tutorial is well written and has some good basic information on installing Blosxom for the first time.

I've been super lazy lately. This article should have been posted a month ago when Markus (website?) made a nice summary of some of the Blagg plugins available out there. For those of you curious, Blagg is to RSS aggregation as Blosxom is to blogging. Not surprisingly both come from the genius of Rael. For simplicity's sake I'm just going to copy Markus' summary from the MailingList.

Unfortunately the original site seems to be down right now, but if you're curious to try it out you can download a local version here. Meanwhile here's what Markus wrote.

I've dug up and posted the blagg plugins in a Files -> blagg files.

There are some other blagg plugins not written by Rael. I'll reference them here.

http://www.speirs.org/blagg/ has a plugin that takes a series of RDF feeds and posts to a LiveJournal account the stories that have appeared in the channels since it was last run.

Another LJ solution can be found at http://popone.innocence.com/archives/2002/10/15/bridgebuilding.php

www.bstpierre.org/Projects/blagg.html has a blagg plugin for placeing incoming posts into a separate directory for each feed.

http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/2002/05/09.html points to http://www.pipetree.com/~dj/jabberconf.pl for pushing RSS item info to a Jabber conference room

http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/blog/archives/2003/01/29/ has one on posting to Usenet/NetNews (i.e. nntp). Another article on it is at http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/01/30/ooodod

FYI ... I've not used any of these. When I get some free time, after my current pet project, I'll be tinkering with them.

Later, Markus.

Thank you, Markus, for putting together this list! My apologies to you and everyone else for taking so long to post it.

Catkin is a Qt-based Blosxom blog editor and admin interface created by Yusuf Smith. The project hasn't been updated in over a year, but might be interesting to some of you out there! The download is here (local download here).

Lee Underwood, who works for WebReference.com, was wondering what is "the 'status' of the Blosxom blogging script, as to the ownership." I thought it was an interesting enough question to take a stab at an answer.

(click here to read more...)

I had forgotten Rael put schwag up for sale until I saw this picture. If you want a shirt of your own (or a coffee mug, even!) visit the Blosxom Cafepress site and get your zen on!

Dan Dickinson wrote up a fairly detailed Blosxom installation walkthrough. It's written towards MacOS X but other *nix platforms should be able to follow along. If anyone knows of a good Windows tutorial, we'd love to post it here, too!

For those of you using Del.icio.us, Blosxom has its own tag. You can lookup bookmarks others have been tagging as Blosxom related at this link. I'll be digging through there and finding new things to post!

This patch, by Steve will return your default flavour instead of the message:

Error: I'm afraid this is the first I've heard of an "ht" flavoured Blosxom. Try dropping the "/+ht" bit from the end of the URL.

To use this patch find the appropriate place in your blosxom.cgi (v2) and paste the bit "# Begin added code" in. More information can be found here.

by Michael Rioux at Tastes Like Tofu.

If you have read the perldocs for the wikieditish plug-in, you'll have seen the note that it can be used to write new Blosxom entries simply by pointing your browser at a non-existent filename, potentially on a non-existent path (e.g. /path/to/a/nonexistent/post.wikieditish), and the directories will be created for you on the fly. This works pretty well for me, as I am more likely to want to add an entry while I am away from my own computer than when I am in front of it. However, some simple setup is needed to make this work and be secure. Here is my guide to this setup.

(click here to read more...)

Stu MacKenzie, in an almost unrelated thread on the MailingList, gave a well worded summary of the basic usage of Blosxom and it's flavour files and placeholders (variables). (click here to read more...)

One of the good and bad things about Blosxom is its flexibility. There is no absolute right or wrong way to install, configure, or use it. That being said, there are some things common to each installation. I'm running several sites with Blosxom using Apache on MacOS X. Because of its flexibility I can only show you how I've got it installed. I strongly encourage you to try an installation on your own and see how it works; it's really the best way to find out. meta-creation_date: 8/5/2004 20:50:00

Meanwhile, my set up... keep in mind this is a MacOS X setup so the directories and such are going to be different for various operating systems. The ideas, however, are the same, so it should translate well to whatever OS you have once you figure out the proper directory structure.

I've been meaning to write an article like this for ages. Thanks to David Goldstein for asking the questions that got me started!

(click here to read more...)

A while back there was a discussion on the Blosxom List on referal programs and how to make some money -or at least defray the costs- from your blog. I put this article together from my own cursory investigations and from one initial recommendation (thanks Bill!). Invariably this article will grow as other people make their own recommendations.

There are many programs out there for making money off your blog. If you are interested in mostly paying for the hosting and domain name fees these can be quite successful for some people. If you are interested in making tons of cash you might have better luck soliciting sponsors.

Amazon Associates Program
If you're interested in selling books and more, you can sign up for an Associates ID. The process is pretty simple. Once approved to the program you can start creating links to various items in the Amazon Stores. If someone clicks on the item and then purchases it, your account will get a certain small, but helpful, proceed from the sale.

Google AdSense
Adsense requires you to put some code on your site once you've been approved to the system. The code creates adstrips which can be in many different forms and you can customize the color schemes. It works by click throughs, so you don't get a penny unless someone clicks on the banner ads. Income is small unless you have large amounts of traffic, but can still be useful when every cent counts.

Booksense
(recommended by Bill Ward). It appears to work very similarly to Amazon's program, except that it only works with books. The great thing is you would be supporting independent book sellers.

Your Webhost
It's likely that whoever your host provider is has some sort of referal program. Check their website or contact them to check. Usually it just involves a banner and some code on your site. Contact your ISP's sales department and check!

Donation Systems
There are many donation systems around such as Paypal and the Amazon Honor System offer systems that allow others to leave donations for your site. This relies on the kindness of strangers which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

Blogads
An anonymous reader in the comments also mentions Blogads, a service similar to Google's AdSense but with ads more targetted towards the content and topic of your blog. It appears that with your membership advertisers can choose your blog to advertise upon, too. I assume you get final approval.

textads dot biz
Another service like Google's AdSense. One of the interesting things about this service is that you can approve or reject certain ads from displaying on your site, and (it appears) you can choose which ads appear. Not bad if you want to customize what products your visitors see.

Blogversations
An interesting service that matches advertisers to bloggers. Advertisers then ask the blogger to comment on their product or service. Supposedly the blogger chooses to accept or reject the proposal and is not obligated to speak positively about the product. It's an interesting idea. More information can be found here.