My previous blog system, chyrp, was causing me a headache. I set it up over a year ago, and while I really liked the concept, it was never stable enough to rely on.
I decided to move my blog to tumblr.com. It’s a hosted microblog, that you can use and customize for free, and even lets you use your own domain without having to pay extra. This made sense as well because of the fact that chyrp was essentially a tumblr clone that you can host yourself. Its also got a well built iphone app which is handing for blogging on the go.
The whole move was very simple and quick, accept for tedious process of looking through their myriad of themes to choose from. I settled on something light and simple.
The other trick was getting comments to work, as they’re not a included in the tumblr package. This turned out to have a simply solution by using disqus.com. I wasn’t aware of this pretty cool site until now. I could see myself using it in future websites.
The year was 2006, the web 2.0 revolution was well underway, the word “blog” was being used incessantly by the corporate news establishment, and I having many other more valuable things to do with my time decided to waste a good deal of it and publish a blog at mattash.com. The problem with blogs is that they only matter when you’ve got something that you not only want to say, but that you feel as though is important enough to share with the vast hordes of the Internet. I don’t often feel that way, and therefore the mattash.com blog (est. 2006) was defunct. In contrast my good friend Manila Ryce at The Largest Minority always has something to say to the hordes, and therefore his blog is meaningful and successful.
This isn’t to say that I am without opinion, nay indeed I have a wealth unqualified positions on many topics, but I just don’t want to write that much about them. Therefore I have moved this blog to a new (though not all that new) format: MicroBlog. The MicroBlog, removes the pressure of authoring prodigious prose, and allows you to just post a sentence or two if that’s all that you feel like. I already do this at twitter, so its not much of a stretch. Or if I want I can just link to a video, url, or photo, and provide a witty little caption. Why not? It sounds like fun.
The platform that I’ve found for this is called Chyrp, a very friendly and MicroBlogging app, that seems to do the job right. I’ve barely customized it, and in fact am practically using the default theme. This is a tragedy for someone who design websites, but I’m gonna take this slowly and see where it leads me. A real low-commitment affair.
So, check our my site occasionally, or better yet, subscribe to my feed. Thanks!
