Comments on: Do you have a Ham Radio Blog?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:16:23 +0000

I agree with you (sort of).

Typical blogs are IMHO still far away from a plain CMS. I recently relaunched the non-blog part of my website (http://ham-blog.de). I wanted to use WordPress as it is relatively easy to maintain and the occupied space is not too big.

But WordPress is still far away from a plain CMS. I had to mod it pretty heavily to get CMS feeling. Joomla, Drupal, Etomite etc. are more like a CMS but don’t work too good as a blogging platform (although Drupal is a very flexible platform due to its modular structure) and they eat up a huge amount of webspace.

What I meant was that hams are (at least from my experience) pretty reluctant to comment on articles (there are exceptions!). One should think that hams are a pretty “communicative” species.

By: Hans/ PD0AC

Hans/ PD0AC — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:36:03 +0000

@Chris: in the beginning a blog was (more or less) an online diary. Now they’re complete CMS (Content Management System) implementations.

There’s not much difference anymore between a blog and a conventional website. A log is just easier to maintain.

Hans

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:27:25 +0000

I am getting more and more convinced that the typical amateur radio operator and web 2.0 is some sort of a contradiction.

Hams are pretty active on the web, but IMHO the majority still sticks to forums, mailinglists and “classical” websites. Although there exists a lot of ham radio blogs I doubt that every one is (still) active.

Time will tell…

P.S.: You have a nice blog!

By: KI4WLR

KI4WLR — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:07:06 +0000

I submitted my blog to them a while back as well, but I have to say I haven’t really received all that much traffic from their site, but it is a neat collection of ham radio blogs.

73, KI4WLR
http://www.ki4wlr.com