Because I’m finally accepting “blog” as a word I’ll tolerate in lieu of “Web log”.
Do any of you use blog software outside of LiveJournal — either to syndicate your LJ content elsewhere, or to have a journal containing completely separate content for an alternate purpose? Amongst you, I think that wixlet and alibee might have them (I haven’t recently given a look-see, so memory will have to serve here).
If so, then I’d relish your input on the following:
1. Upon which blog software solution did you ultimately decide for your needs?
2. How steep was your own personal learning curve while setting up, stylizing, and maintaining your blog?
3. Which features about your blog software solution do you particularly dig?
4. What particularly peeves you about those features (or lack thereof) which you’d like to see refinements — without having to switch to another solution?
5. Anything else I should know or ask about pertaining to this?
Presently, it seems that b2Evolution, Nucleus and WordPress are strong hopefuls on my list, but I’ve made no hard and fast commitments by any stretch.
It seems that I’m going to try out this blogging thing myself for no other reason than to tinker and discover what I haven’t known all this time. At one point in the past, I used to find myself more or less on the forefront, if not well in check, with minor memetic evolutions such as this.
It’s no mystery to me how and why I dropped the ball on this one. In short, it’s been a wild and woolly seven years over yonder in my neck of the woods — fraught with the unbelievable, incredible, and unspeakable. svairini perhaps could attest to this as witness better than anyone else on the planet, having seen so much of it up close and intimately personal.
But now, I’m excited by this prospect present scenario of amassing even greater interia behind the momentum that my summertime holiday infused. And what a kick in the arse it was indeed! For me, this means embracing an eagerness to learn, to be challenged in productive and exciting ways, to learn from good teachers who are willing to share their knowledge (and anyone can be my teacher without even realising it!), and to err on the side of optimism whenever I’m in doubt.
Possibilities, thy name is Pollyanna. :)