Manage your online identity.

While ClaimID certainly takes up a lot of our time, Terrell and I do have a number of other projects we work on.  I thought it might be interesting to share this Red Hat Magazine article about Lyceum - a project that I’ve been working on for quite some time now.  Written by Lyceum chief software architect John Joseph Bachir, the article provides a complete overview of the project - the rationale behind its conception, key design decisions, security and spam strategies, and project management.

What’s Lyceum?  Lyceum is a multi-user, multi-blog version of Wordpress.  Imagine that you run a company, and you want to give your employees blogs.  With Lyceum, you would just download and install, and all of your employees would log in and be given their own fantastic Wordpress blogs.  Lyceum lets you have the functionality of Blogger, Typepad or Wordpress.com wherever you want, under your control.  And the best part is Lyceum is incredibly fast, scalable and of course free and open source.

If you’re interested in creating your own blogospheres - whether they be for your clients, your family, your dorm, whatever - I’d encourage you to take a look at Lyceum.  The Red Hat Magazine article, coupled with an upcoming article in Reference Services Review will provide you ample reading material - but I’d recommend just downloading Lyceum and trying it out.  Supported by ibiblio.org, one of the web’s oldest and largest open source resources, Lyceum’s a great project, with a growing community of fantastic developers.  I’d definitely encourage you to check it out if you’re interested in Wordpress, multi-user/multi-blog services, or just blogging in general.