Gelato: Own Your Own Tumblelog
Nick Gonzalez
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Gelato is an open source tumblelog “content management system” (CMS) from a group of Mexican developers. Tublelogs are the ADHD version of blogging, meant for easily throwing up mixed media posts made up of photos, videos, chat logs, links, quotes, and short paragraphs.
Similar to full blown blogs, you can host a tumblelog on a site like Tumblr, but Gelato lets you own the code. There have been a couple other open source tumblelogs out there, such as Bazooka and Tumble but Gelato is a little more ambitious. They’re following Wordpress’ lead, incorporating themes with plugin support TBA.
Installation is simple and similar to Wordpress’ 5 minute install, requiring only a MySQL database and setting a config.php file. Once installed you can post up short paragraphs, pictures, video, links, quotes, and chat logs. Pictures can be uploaded from your computer or through a URL. For URLs, it doesn’t hotlink, it downloads the photo to your server. Videos (YouTube or Vimeo) and mp3s can only be added through URLs. To make playback simple, Gelato also comes with its own built in mp3 player.
Tumblelogs are rather short on conversation, because they don’t support comments. It’s a deficit trying to be corrected by other thought casting services like Twitter and especially Pownce, with its multimedia focus.
What can you do with Gelato that you can’t do with Wordpress?
You can do everything you can do on a tumblelog on wordpress, tumblelogs just has a built in forms for easily posting different multimedia formats to the site and displaying them in the appropriate way.
Gelato (in Italy) means “icecream”… nice!
I think Gelato has some good features.
I never saw such a tumblelog before, but I found the tumblelist, a directory for tumblelogs if anyone wants to have a look on some of them.
http://www.tumblelog.co.uk/
Btw, I saw comments on some of the tumblelogs in this directory
I addressed this problem by embedding js-kit comments into my tumblr template. (linked above)
very nice, though no demo! damn! michael, i think YOU oughta throw up a tumbelog at techcrunch/tumble and post assorted rants and pics and whatever from wherever you are - especially those backyard parties (photos, etc)! that would be some cool shit…
Tumble blog - boo - weak sauce
I doubt if it will have more appeal or novelty features than it’s predecessors, but it’s still worth a look.
Someone asked me how specifically to embed comments per post..
What you need to do is have this div in each post:
then somewhere at the bottom of your post you want to include the script:
sorry.. doesn’t like lt/gt.
Assume the parens are HTML tags
What you need to do is have this div in each post:
(div class=”js-kit-comments” path=”{Permalink}” label=”comment”)(/div)
then somewhere at the bottom of your post you want to include the script:
(script src=”http://js-kit.com/comments.js”)(/script)
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