Permanence in blogging

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 Word​Press​.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.