Changes to the site
Blogger has announced that it will no longer support ftp publishing after March 26, 2010. Since this site is published using ftp, that means that there will be some changes, especially since some of the features of my website are not supported by blogger's hosted sites. And in addition to that, it means that I will have to put in a bunch of work to convert over, at a time when I am not putting in a bunch of work to the site.
At this point, it's not clear how much of this you will see. Some features will go away for sure, like the server-side includes that add the Thought of the Day and What I'm Reading and What I'm Reading for Book Club boxes. There may be a way to keep these, but since I really haven't been updating these regularly, if I can't find a really easy way to update these (like tweeting from my phone) they might go away. Another thought is the whole website idea goes away. I already do Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter and having a personal web presence might be a distraction from my professional activities (like if I ever have to look for a new job). There are some advantages in having some web space that I control, but I'm paying $11 or $12 per month to maintain a hosted domain, and I may give that up and go completely into the cloud.
Other options are to migrate to another blog software, but that either takes more money or more work or both. Facebook is cheesey but it has a couple advantages, limited access and free and easy. Just like me!
This is a geeky topic but since I am a total geek I will keep you updated.
At this point, it's not clear how much of this you will see. Some features will go away for sure, like the server-side includes that add the Thought of the Day and What I'm Reading and What I'm Reading for Book Club boxes. There may be a way to keep these, but since I really haven't been updating these regularly, if I can't find a really easy way to update these (like tweeting from my phone) they might go away. Another thought is the whole website idea goes away. I already do Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter and having a personal web presence might be a distraction from my professional activities (like if I ever have to look for a new job). There are some advantages in having some web space that I control, but I'm paying $11 or $12 per month to maintain a hosted domain, and I may give that up and go completely into the cloud.
Other options are to migrate to another blog software, but that either takes more money or more work or both. Facebook is cheesey but it has a couple advantages, limited access and free and easy. Just like me!
This is a geeky topic but since I am a total geek I will keep you updated.
posted by drewc4 at
1:33 PM
1 Comments:
I sure agree with a couple of your points, which is why I had resisted blogging for so long.
In my experience, nobody reads my blogs, and I find that since I get no feedback, there's no incentive to write.
I find most people are in the same boat. They start off all enthused, and after a while it's just too much trouble for nothing.
Still, I enjoy writing, so it's no big deal:)
YOUR blog is about the best personal blog I've seen, and you have gone to a lot of trouble to provide interesting and relatively fresh content.
Cheers!
www.hemmi.us/blog01/
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