[GMG-Devel] What does it do?

[Mike Gran]

Hello,
 
I've read over your website a couple of times and I don't think
it really explains what your project does.
 
It says "MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform
that anyone  can run.  You can think of it as a decentralized
alternative to  Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
 
Then on the "take the tour" page it says it shares media, does
comments, and has a clean look.
 
While I've figured it out now, the following questions weren't
obvious from the descriptions...
 
Is the point that you give it pictures and it makes webpages with
comment boxes?  How it is different from hosting a blog and
putting pictures in a blog, then?
 
How do you give it pictures?  Does it look for pictures on your
computer?
 
Does it have a standalone webserver in it? or do you have to
somehow set it up to run in Apache, like you would if you downloaded
a blogging engine?
 
Anyway, just FYI that it seems like some remedial information is
missing.
 
-Mike