integrate blogging feature

[holtzermann17]

Many people like writing about math on personal blogs. We can provide a blogging service on PlanetMath. Maybe also an aggregator for other known math blogs?

[rspuzio]

Drupal has a blogging module which could presumably be of use here:

https://drupal.org/documentation/modules/blog https://drupal.org/node/21955

For reference, here is a list of blog program features and a review of platforms:

http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/7887/11-Essential-Business-Blogging-Software-Features.aspx http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-software-smackdown-review/

Also, should we implement math blogging features and try to build a business model around them, here are some prices for reference:

http://www.typepad.com/pricing

As for aggregating other blogs, here are some links to organizations which do that and the software they use:

http://www.mathblogging.org/about http://scienceonline.com/ http://scienceseeker.org/ http://code.google.com/p/subjectseeker/

[holtzermann17]

Talking with @rspuzio today, he suggested

1. making a view of encyclopedia articles that looks like a blog - sort by date, category, mathtype...
2. make an aggregator that pulls content from the math blog-o-sphere into this user interface
   • alternative: we could provide extra features, e.g. linking, over other people's aggregator

It would be pretty cool if each user's homepage looked like a math blog. Also "building a giant math blog hive" seems like something we could try to get Kickstarter or IndieGoGo funding for. We could say "we're the guys who made PlanetMath". I think (2) is the only hard part here, but maybe its harder than I think.

Integrating with Organic Groups (e.g. individual blog posts show up in a given group blog/forum) might be a little harder, but worthwhile for running things like courses.