I decided that my python based CMS is still a fair way from being completed so I knew that I had to get rid of my placeholder page and replace it with something.

While checking the morning news today I saw the storytlr CMS mentioned on ars technica. I thought it looked interesting, and it seemed to have the features I required so I decided to give it a go.

It took a bit of setting up due to the very immature documentation which is somewhat expected for a newly open sourced piece of code. I plan to create an article describing how to set it up on CentOS 5 as it has a few issues with PHP.

I am still working out the features as storytlr is not your usual CMS. It is heavily social-media oriented. As you can see by the main page of the website it can hook into RSS, microblogging (it has native support for Identi.ca!) as well as publishing blog and microblog style content from storytlr itself.

The thing I like about the social media integration, despite not being very active with social media is that it means that the site is very up to date with not just my contents (I post a few times a week on identi.ca) but with things I am interested in.

Static content in storytlr is a little tricky though. As I am finding out now, you cannot just upload images into a blog post... However it seems that you can upload pictures, audio and video to create galleries. Perhaps I could get my hands dirty and fix this, or somebody else will soon no doubt.