Blogging Roller

Couple of interesting items in the land of open source blog server software.

First, the Ibiblio folks over at UNC have announced a new project (or is it a new direction for an old project) called Lyceum to modify Wordpress for multi-user blogging. I'm a little surprised by this because I thought Wordpress already supported multi-user, that's what Wordpress.com does and that's what the Wordpress/Mu is all about. Update: this post from Matt Mullenweg explains the difference between Wordpress and the Lyceum fork.

I think some of the Computer Science folks at UNC are pushing Roller (ITS already has one), which has been doing multi-user blogging for years now, so it will be interesting to see what UNC chooses for student blogs.

Second, Simon Brown has released milestone 1 of Pebble 2.0. This new version of Pebble will require Java 5.0, something I wish we could do now with Roller. I read recently that he decided to keep Pebble file-system based, which I think is a good choice. Part of the charm of Pebble is the super-easy install.