Month: January 2002

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I should be writing email,

I should be writing email, I need to write to:

  • Irina
  • the div. hair guys
  • Susanne
  • Elizabeth
  • K
  • Mona
  • Paula

and probably a bunch of other people I haven’t even thought of.

I don’t why it’s always such a chore for me. it’s not as though these people are folks I want to avoid; I just hate getting started. lazy, laze E. so, yeah, if you’re thinking that you should have an email from me in your inbox, you’re probably right. I just haven’t gotten to it.

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my thoughts on weblog –

my thoughts on weblog – content management systems

Blogger deadly easy to set up. free. easy to customize. the archive system in a pain in the ass. hard to add images. hard to add commenting.

Movable Type haven’t finished setting this up, which I guess is the biggest problem. apparently I don’t have the right Perl modules set up, or something. but it looks like the templates are quite pretty, and I know it has commenting right out of the box. sorta free.

Radio Userland (also its cousin, Manila) very easy to set up. $40 – includes hosting, which I don’t actually need. way more features than I was really ready for – the RSS/aggregation stuff looks quite intriguing. quite difficult to customize the design…to be honest, I gave up pretty quickly trying to set it up with the same design that I had on my Blogger weblog for many months.

other systems? I haven’t tried LiveJournal or Greymatter. I hear that Greymatter is no longer being updated or supported, and K has been less than enthralled with LiveJournal’s service. I think I have a Diaryland account, but it looked both squirrelly and cutesy. (any other suggestions from the studio audience?)

for me, I think it’s coming down to one of three choices: continue on Blogger as is, switch to Blogger Pro (nifty, nifty features), or go with Movable Type. I’m thinking (a) and (c) for the time being. the college is going to sign up for Blogger Pro, so maybe if it blows me away I’ll pay for the upgrade. Radio just doesn’t cut it for me, not now.

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blah blah blah. do I

blah blah blah.

do I have $35 to get Blogger Pro? do I want to do a mix of weblogs – one Blogger, one Movable Type, one Radio? that could be sort of interesting, I think.