DISQUS

A resounding "foe!"

My philosophy is if it is sticky and not chronologically organized, it is not an entry. (Habari refers to chronologically sorted posts as entries, while time-insensitive posts are pages.)

If you don't want a post to be time-sensitive, then use a page–simple as that. In Habari, pages have *exactly* the same features as entries, so there is no functional difference. If you want to display that page at the top, your clip is excellent.

What concerns me even more is that WordPress continually adds these sort of features. They offer nothing to 99% of users, and the 1% who would use this can easily use existing functionality to implement it (pages). The day Habari offers sticky entries in core is the day I quit the project.

Of course, a plugin to easily shoot a page to the top of any view would be very useful. (Hint, hint!)

I'm not blocking any cookies or anything like that.

I'm using Firefox 3 on OSX.

The wizard is very cool... except it generates a ton of errors for me. The plugin file it produces is basically entirely errors. Here: http://pastoid.com/bc3

I look forward to seeing the continued results of your web spider.... I'm going to be launching a Habari blog soon (let's see if you pick it up!)

I can't wait to see what you do with funwithonions.co.uk.... maybe a Habari-powered the onion?

As I've said before, I think teachers need to stop considering the entire world as their students: your students are those who are actually your students.

On that point, I agree: you shouldn't be friends with those who are under your direct teaching. However, that doesn't mean you should consider the entire world of "students" your students. Where does the line stop? What about high school students to an elementary teacher? Or college students? Or graduate students? Or, teachers taking professional development? The fact is, many, many people are students – that doesn't mean they are your students.

By the way, in regards to the inappropriate use of Facebook by young adults I think it is actually a lot rarer than it is portrayed as. I have done a look through the over 200 profiles of my friends (most of my school class) and not a single one of them contained objectionable or inappropriate content. While it is certainly something to educate about, it isn't nearly as prevalent as people assume – must young people have developed some degree of sense around these issues.

I think Facebook can be a great tool for interacting with alumni: but I'd recommend you let them initiate contact and wait a while (don't friend them the week they graduate). By then, they will have developed the ability to engage in a professional manner while still staying friendly with past teachers.

ZATZAi, actually Habari is set up to end up being an even better CMS than WordPress. The number one reason is out extensible content-type system: you're not locked into just having entries and pages. To add a new content type, it's just a matter of adding _one_ line of code to a plugin. Additionally, the publishing interface is completely pluggable so plugins can easily add custom fields. Examples of new content-types we've been able to develop are: events, plugins/themes (for our repository), and podcasts. We're also working on a cool system of sorting out where different content should show up in a theme (ex. put pages in the header, entries and podcasts in the content area, and events in the sidebar)

Thanks for the post! Nice screencast.

It should also be noted that it's not just Flickr we support: there are plugins for storing files on your own server (standard uploading), Viddler, YouTube, and even last.fm. The Core API makes it very easy to build plugins (which we call silos) that integrate external services.