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September 29, 2005

How to Demonstrate Blogging To The Unaware

Here's a question for all of the Munuvians who know more about how all of this works than I do. (And I wager that's a fairly high number.)

Is it possible, for purposes of a presentation, to run a blog locally on your own system so that it is not accessible over the internet? Is there a blogging package that can do this fairly easily and really really really cheaply?

And now for the real kick in the pants - is there one that will do all of this on a MAC?

My original plan was to just dummy the thing up in Keynote (Apple's alternative to PowerPoint) but if it could be more real, that would be more better.

UPDATE: I found a shareware program called iBlog (mac programmers are clever namers) it might sort of work but it doesn't have a comment feature.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 04:33 AM | Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Well, if you could always install Apache, MySQL, and PHP or Perl (if they're not installed already) and run Movable Type or Wordpress.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at September 29, 2005 02:29 AM

2 To run a full-featured blog locally on your own machine, you also have to essentially have a web-server installed, including a whole slew of plugin modules (perl etc.)and a database (mySQL etc.). It can certainly be done, but it's a helluva lot of work for just a demo.

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at September 29, 2005 02:34 AM

3 Heh... yea, what Pixy said.

Posted by: Light & Dark @ at September 29, 2005 02:35 AM

4 Given all of that I think that even if I could make that happen, I can probably still fake it in Illustrator in half the time I could do the HTML and CSS.

Thanks for talking me down.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin @ at September 29, 2005 02:57 AM

5 I have Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, Perl, Python, PHP, Pike, Ruby and Java installed on my notebook. It's fun!

Still working on installing all the applications...

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at September 29, 2005 03:16 AM

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