Permanence in blogging   4 comments

Posted at 2:34 pm in Personal

So I’ve settled on WordPress as my blogging engine of choice, having used it variously (and been impressed) and having witnessed how quickly and well they release.

I’ve bought a host, set up Google Apps, picked a theme*, duly reread John Gruber’s comments about his design :), and I’m pretty much set.

I’ve had an interesting a boring history with blogs: I started with Blogger in 2005, switched to WordPress.com in 2007 (and promptly never updated), and then started with Tumblr in early 2008. WordPress on my own host will provide me the best options for blogging as well as a host (get it?) of other tools at my disposal.

Tumblr is pretty nice, for what it is: a no-nonsense hosted blog. It even got me blogging on a regular basis. It doesn’t do everything well though, including customized design, plugins for extra features, and integrated comments (let alone exporting your content for another blog). I like what it is, but have decided I don’t want it to be my primary blog; I want something that can better reflect my web identity.

Let me know what you think!

PS: While I’ve ensured that the RSS feed migrated from Tumblr, you may want to update to WordPress’ default feed.

*- I’ll be changing the theme’s colors promptly, but otherwise I generally like the design.

Written by Andrew on August 12th, 2008

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4 Responses to 'Permanence in blogging'

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  1. Dan Hughes

    12 Aug 08 at 16:13

    LOL - Yeah, your RSS feed works just fine. My reader exploded with every post you ever made today :P

  2. Andrew

    12 Aug 08 at 16:22

    Yeah, sorry about that. I had a few hiccups with the Redirection plugin I was using to manage the RSS link.

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