A few things come to mind that are a bit unclear here. First question is with regard to the News Module, is that XOOPS closest thing to a blog? It does appear to be a blog of sorts.
Second, if so, I can set it up so that any registered member can submit entirely new stories for placement on the site, correct? where I'd specify how much control I wanted over the posting of ongoing discussion in such a story? The goal is this and maybe there is a third party plug-in to meet this need... I'd like to allow multiple blogs/stories to be posted by registered users and allow these to be ongoing or followed by one article after another daily or intermittently. So, for example say I was about to run for president and wanted a blog for that campaign, similr to John Kerry for President's blog. Then maybe I have registered user john smith who wants a blog for his reporting on poverty in his community. In each case I or a blogger may or may not want to allow comments or contributors to the blog.
Am I on the right track here? Is the News Module something that can serve as a blog? Is there a better one out htere that is a third party option that would be worth considering? I'm sure there must be a way to do this and the News Module seems to be of the form of a blog. That's what I want, multiple blogs, each based on different topics, and control by me or a registered user as to whether others can contribute or not to the blog.
I'm anxious to get feedback on this as I'd like to get a good feel for this concept or News and how it is intended to be used. I distinguish this from the Headlines module which actually can have newsfeeds that are blogs.
Thanks in advance,
Bruce