BoingBoing now hosted by D3
I want to make a version of this tool that works for WordPress. See update below.
Well, at least a clone of it is, anyway. Drew3ooo is now the home of a BoingBoing mirror. Why? Because we on the d3 development team (which is me in the editorial sense) hate censorship. Also, we’d (still just me) like to learn more about the Distributed BoingBoing tool and mod it for a couple other projects that are either live or under development that might benefit, such as this, this, this or this.
BoingBoing is one of my favorite blogs, worth checking in on daily. But it has found itself on the wrong side of a few firewalls when it comes to corporate and government censorware. As a website developer who works with organisations that also run into the potential of these sorts of jams, this idea has some appeal. Installing this mirror took seconds. Far less time than it took to write about it. drew3000.net/dbb.php.
This is a very cool tool and a neat way of utilizing the true people power of the internet to beat censorship. Created by Mark Christian, it requires absolute URLs, which can be easily added into a WordPress theme and css file, but doesn’t really work with the WordPress system (that I know of), so I’m looking to somehow mod it, or find something that does that and plays nice with WordPress. Not that I really think my site is being blocked, or even paid attention to, but I’ve created some other WordPress installations and am working on others that could benefit. Anyone have any clues on mirroring WordPress in this manner for beating censorware, drop me a comment.
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UPDATE: So it does work with WordPress, kind of. To see it in action, click here. You’ll notice if you click around enough that there are some problems with it working with WordPress. The footer doesn’t format well, comments, pingbacks, archives, searching and that sort of thing aren’t really working, but I think that better minds than mine could probably come up with a mod of this file that would work.
To get Mark’s Dristibuted BoingBoing, file, click here. To get my highly in-progress, semi-working version, Distributed drew3ooo, click here.
I’ll continue to tinker with this, but if you come up with a mod that works with WordPress, drop me a line and I’ll be your biggest fan.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference.
