NewsBruiser is a simple but full-featured weblog management system. It is almost entirely self-contained, requiring nothing but Python (1.5.2 or greater) and SSI (optional) to be happy.

Features

Multiple password-protected notebooks Category tree per notebook Multiple authors per notebook Web-based add, edit, search, and configure Easy URL-addressibility of entries (by day, month, year, or individual entry) Entry permalinks Simple per-notebook themes using CSS (plus minimal non-CSS themes) A simple templating system for when CSS isn't enough Update notification to weblogs.com or other aggregator RSS syndication Easily extendable (includes sample SSI scripts) Simple to operate (my mother uses it)

For a more thorough feature list, and to see how NewsBruiser stacks up against other weblog software, see BlogComp (here's NewsBruiser's entry).

Antifeatures [0]

• User accounts
• Discussion boards
• File management
• Database usage

Download

Download the latest release of NewsBruiser here, or get the current CVS tree here.

Documentation

Documentation comes with NewsBruiser, but you can also read it online.

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots of NewsBruiser 1.4.0 running on my personal site.

• NewsBruiser main screen
• HTML page using NewsBruiser SSIs: "Today in history" SSI and "Last n entries" SSI
• Adding an entry
• Calendar view of 2002
• Edit view of September 2002
• Category tree
• Category subtree (edit view)
• Configuration interface

Case studies

The following weblogs are known to run NewsBruiser:

• Andy's Journal
• charleshbaker.com news
• Cogito, Ergo Sumana
• Cola contains no preservatives of the past
• The Daily Zoe
• Exothermic
• Fujichia (actually running NOWB)
• Hipshake
• Jabberwocky
• La Vie En Rose
• life of a dred nerd
• mv * vacationland
• News You Can Bruise, the weblog NewsBruiser was written to manage.
• Rajarshi Guha's weblog
• Susie's Leaning Tower of Chocolate

If you run NewsBruiser, take pride! Add to the bottom of your page a tasteful text link to newsbruiser.tigris.org, or use one of these elegant buttons: [eye] [girl] [typewriter]. Also let me know so that I can add your weblog to that list.

Further Development

See the rather sparse TODO. I don't have any plans for further development beyond what's in there (though somehow I keep adding features). However, I wrote NewsBruiser to be easy and fun to hack, so please implement your cool ideas and send me your changes so they can be folded into the main source tree.

[0] Jason Robbins introduced me to the concept of antirequirements, a list of behaviors which the software is not to exhibit. Since requirements are turned into features, it follows that antirequirements are turned into antifeatures.