the Scoop CMS - where to get it, or viable alternatives?

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Thursday May 14, 2009 · 9:54 PM PDT

2009/05/14 · 21:54

Daily Kos is powered by a content management system (CMS) called Scoop. Scoop was designed originally to power a website called Kuro5hin (http://kuro5hin.org/) but has since been used in hundreds of sites. It apparently is famous for running political sites, such as our very own DKos.

The problem, though, is that it's been wiped off the face of the earth.

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 6:31 PM PDT

2008/09/30 · 18:31

Disclaimer: I thought of this randomly while at work earlier today. The more I thought about it, though, the more it made sense. However, I am not an investment banker, nor an economics expert, nor even a big-shot within any industry whatsoever. I'm merely a progressive dude fed up with this mess, and I appeal to the greater brains at DKos to poke holes in my ridiculous idea.

Stream of consciousness follows, I apologize. Again, feel free to gently eviscerate the points that don't make sense:

Congress wants to spend a ridiculous amount of money bailing out troubled financial institutions. They wish to do this by essentially buying all of these bad investments; bad mortgages owed by people who cannot ever pay for them. At the same time they'll also give all the people that screwed us over the last 30 years a gigantic check with which to buy more hookers and blow with.

Screw that. Instead, take the money and outright purchase all of the foreclosed properties from the banks at at most half of their appraised foreclosure value. Pool all of these foreclosed homes into a new Federal program, something like the Federal Foreclosed Homes Department or whatever. (more below)

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Sunday June 22, 2008 · 8:08 AM PDT

2008/06/22 · 08:08

I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to political horseraces; this is the first election cycle I've been following with a magnifying glass. I'm endlessly fascinated with the very different ways Obama and McCain are going about their campaigns.

Obama tends to veer towards populism, hiring extremely smart people who might not be best of friends but definitely know their stuff. We all know this, we're betting the next four years on this extraordinary guy.

But he's extraordinary for another reason; he's forgone public campaign financing. This, coupled with his reliance on small donors, makes him different in that for the first time, "We, The People" seem to have been given the purse strings for his entire campaign.

lordfly

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Monday April 21, 2008 · 5:14 AM PDT

2008/04/21 · 05:14

In my first dKos diary entry (hi guys!), I wax poetic about the sad state of my local Democratic Party website. Looking like it stumbled out of a time capsule, the page is a mess of broken links, poor information layout, and, horror of horrors, animated gifs of 3d donkeys dancing around. Is this common nationwide, and if so, is there any movement to redesign the Democratic Party's internet face?

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