Welcome, this is my first new post on the brand new, freshly rennovated, high-powered, super-dee-duper Steve’s Tech Journal.
Back in February I started Steve’s Tech Journal 1.0 as an experiment, not really knowing where it would go, and whether I would have the interest, time, and readership to keep it up. On all counts, the experiment has exceeded my expectations — it’s fun to write about things I’m passionate about, I find I can squeeze in time here and there, and enough people seem to read to make it worthwhile. I even had a “hit”, with my Sip / Skype article getting widely linked and discussed.
But, the bloglines authoring service that I was using had limitations. Most importantly, it didn’t support RSS — bloglines users could aggregate me but no-one else could. It also lacked a number of features such as commenting, track/ping backs, categories, and permanent links. And, the control over formatting was dodgy. It was an OK way to start.
Given that I plan to keep this blog going, [and that I’ve received a request to syndicate my blog, more on that soon], it was time to move to a more professional authoring environment. Web 2.0 guru, RSS hacker, and friend Kellan steered me to the open source Wordpress, which remedies the aforementioned shortcomings. Take a look around, leave me a comment, I hope you’ll like the new place. Uhh, there’s just a few unfinished things, a title link or two isn’t yet populated, and I may switch to a different skin when I get the time, but it’s mostly all here.
Thanks for reading, thanks for making this experiment in personal content creation a success.