Running Weblogs with Slash

What’s Inside

Chapter 1, Slash: an Overview, begins with an overview of weblogging and Slash. It describes the history of Slashdot, examines the Slash interface from a user’s perspective, and gives a big picture overview of the rest of the book.

Chapter 2, Installing Slash, walks through the Slash installation process. This includes information on the software prerequisites (Perl, Apache, MySQL) and discusses common configurations.

Chapter 3, Basic Administration, takes a first look at the administrative menus. It begins by helping an administrator delegate power and authority and also demonstrates basic Slash customization.

Chapter 4, Editing and Updating Stories, examines the story selection and publishing features. It includes the common convenience functions that have grown up over the years.

Chapter 5, Reviewing and Approving Submissions, describes the process of publishing Stories recommended by users. Slash has several little-known features for sorting, winnowing, and queueing Stories, all listed here.

Chapter 6, Comments, Filters, and Content Moderation, explores the powerful comment and moderation systems in detail. This includes the underlying formulas and functions of moderation and meta-moderation. Yikes.

Chapter 7, Managing Topics and Sections, looks at how Slash groups related Stories. This has implications for site organization and future expandability.

Chapter 8, Managing a Slash Community, takes a philosophical approach, listing several important questions ...