For those of you who requested for a SpeedBlog Beta Preview invite, “Thank you.”

Here’s  a quick run down on how to go about installing the beta preview, setting up Windows Live writer to connect to SpeedBlog and making your first post, in much less time than it takes you to read this post!

This was bound to happen. But it didn’t have to. For an open source framework like DotNetNuke, so powerful and widely adopted, yet blogging or even publishing an article was an after-thought. In the OpenSource world they say, “The product has to be absolutely top-notch to succeed” and yet instead of harnessing and shoring up on the success of DNN, the Blog module stands there, lackluster in every sense, reeking of neglect, derelict, unending wait  except for the oohs and aahs of what’s about to come in the next version.