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Proposed Ghost blogging platform
Idea proposed in the fall of 2012.
Development began in 2013.
First release expected in summer or fall of 2013.
A lot of nerd hype.
Concept, however, contains interesting ideas.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4743245
http://john.onolan.org/ghost-from-fiction-to-function/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform
Elsewhere
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/07/ghost-will-take-your-boring-blog-to-the-next-astral-plane/
http://mashable.com/2013/05/25/ghost-kickstarter-blogging/
http://agbeat.com/social-media/ghost-blogging-platform-that-could-be-the-next-wordpress/
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/10/ghost
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andyellwood/2013/04/30/innovation-in-creation/
Blog or CMS?
The purpose of creating a new "blog" publishing system was because Wordpress had allegedly morphed into a CMS.
"WordPress is so much more than just a blogging platform."
"66% of [users] said they use WordPress as a CMS and not as a blog."
But posted at https://twitter.com/TryGhost
Hey @TryGhost i love your idea, im just curious if u guys will be giving support for news websites with multiple authors.@themacified Yes. Not at day 1 (need to do the basics first) - but that's absolutely in our long term plan :)
@TryGhost will be possible to set permissions for each author? For example, user A can save post only as a draft, but B can publish it.@micwro It isn't possible yet - but it absolutely will be in the future, yes :)
@micwro Totally - we want to build an awesome editorial flow so authors and editors can collaborate properly :) this is a part of that
Sounds like a lot more than a blogging tool.
Updates
May 16, 2013
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform/posts/482591
July 4, 2013
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform/posts/529591
http://greenlighter.com/podcast/episode-5/
We follow up with John O'Nolan, find out what it feels like to raise $300,000 in 30 days via Kickstarter for "Ghost," and how his project's developing. John shares advice on getting publicity, tells us what he wouldn't do again and how he got Mashable to profile his project.
Sep 16, 2013 - Medium.com - Microsoft Throws its Weight Behind Ghost
Hacker News thread
Sep 15, 2013 humorous HN comment
It's just the turn of the wheel. Should Ghost succeed, odds are quite good that in about seven years, you'll be reading about how old and crufty Ghost is, held back by it's aging Node.js platform, and how some new hotness or other is coming along to give you just blogging (or whatever).To a first approximation, every web project starts life as a "clean, simple X without all that cruft". It is the destiny of most projects to follow that with A: failure or B: becoming the next pile of sludge to inspire a "clean, simple X".
Another HN comment
I'd love to see a platform that is easily deployed on shared hosting (written in php, using mysql) but that lends itself better to version control and switching environments. It should keep configuration in plain text instead of in the database, and it should allow easy definition of node types in addition to the standards (post, page, comment, etc.). These should also be defined in plain text instead of in the database (I'm looking at you, Drupal). Meanwhile, theming should be just as easy as with Wordpress.
Sep 20, 2013
http://blog.ghost.org/launch - Sep 19, 2013 - blog post on Ghost
Another post on Ghost:
http://ghost.onolan.org/what-it-means-to-be-non-profit
Displays a bit like a Medium.com blog post:
- white background
- Serif font
- "big" font for body text
- text appears to be very dark grey and not black
- fairly narrow, centered column of the body text
- small, round image for user (many places do this now)
- large header or banner image for blog or blog post (optional)
New URL:
http://ghost.org
Themes
Blogs
Blogs powered by the downloaded version of the Ghost software
October 2013
October 14, 2013 announcement about the public release of the Ghost blogging app.
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