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Who is using .Text?

.Text is my favorite blogging software, I have used it internally in our company, and I plan on using it when I move my blog to another server. But I was curious how many other people were using .Text, and then I thought about it and .Text has the very distinct feature of having a main rss feed called MainFeed.aspx. Since this file has an aspx extension, it is actually indexed by google, even though it probably should not be. This makes it easy to find all the currently indexed sites using .Text, using the following search allinurl: "mainfeed aspx" you can browse through 84 different sites that use .Text. (These are complete sites, as multi blog sites do not use this file for each blog). The hidden gem of my search was a site called GeekDojo, good technical blogs that I had no idea existed. The most surprising site I found was called ZionBlogs which is obvisouly a religous oriented blog site, not my thing, but interesting to see what people are using this technology for.

-James

Posted: Nov 11 2003, 11:18 PM by jamesavery | with 10 comment(s)
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Jeff Julian said:

Geekswithblogs.net is currently running .Text. So far I think it is a great tool as well.
# November 11, 2003 11:56 PM

Thom Allen said:

Hey, I see you found my site. It's a project in the works. I have used .Text in a couple other installations. Since I have an ASP.Net background and I already had the IIS/SQL Server setup I thought it was natural to set up ZionBlogs.

And yeah, it's religeous in nature. Great to see technology can be used just about any where. Thanks again for the unknowing plug.

--Thom
# November 12, 2003 12:07 AM

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# November 12, 2003 12:16 AM

rick said:

I use it internally at work for some project blogs. I'm secretly infiltrating my organization with weblogs, wikis, and xml apps before anyone figures out what's going on! muahaha!

I'm more familiar with Movable Type, but this was a great chance for me to dig into .Text a little more. Very cool.
# November 12, 2003 12:40 AM

Scott Watermasysk said:

Technorati has about 1204 blogs pointing to http://scottwater.com/dottext (which will be changed soon :( )

http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/links.html?rank=&url=http://scottwater.com/dottext

I am sure its not 100% accurate, but it is a nice ball park figure.

-Scott
# November 12, 2003 7:26 AM

Andrew said:

Thanks for the google tip.

It lead me to this http://weblogs.asp.net/FMARGUERIE/Story/2691.aspx
:D:D
# November 12, 2003 9:30 AM

Ron Green said:

Since the search missed my site and several others I know of, I would say there are a lot more than 84.
# November 12, 2003 9:59 AM

James Avery said:

Yeah, I am sure it is not all inclusive... but it is pretty cool to see that there are that many just showing up in google. I think it has something to do with how you have .Text configured as well, since you have it setup as a single blog you would not have MainFeed.aspx. So perhaps a better way to put it would be that there are around 84 multi-blog sites using .Text
# November 12, 2003 10:13 AM

DonXML Demsak said:

I use .Text as the content management system for my site (http://www.donxml.com). It makes it very easy to post new content with very little work. It lets me breakup my site into various themed areas, and also allows for a wide array of rss feed categories and sub-categories, so people can customize how much (or how little) "noise" they get in there rss feeds.
# November 20, 2003 11:50 AM

Richard A Lowe said:

Thank-you for the link, James. I think we're carving a tiny bit of a niche somewhere in the cyber hyperplane.
# November 24, 2003 12:33 PM
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