stranger things have happened
If you visit thoughtstoblog.com, you’ll notice that I’ve changed blogging platforms once again… the old posts might show up eventually, because there were a few that got some attention…
But for the most part, I’m not missing it. I’ll figure out how to get the archive up eventually…
What happened?
I got sick of comment spam.
The previous system was home grown and didn’t have a sophisticated enough spam filtering. I was getting 200 a day and weeding out the good from the bad became too much of a hassle. I’ve also been deciding to host my blog in the cloud because I really think there are some neat tools out there for content publishing that I want to try out… which leads me to…
What blogging platform did you choose?
I was having issues choosing between Posterous and tumblr. I like Posterous because it had an easy email in interface and did some nice content conversion, multiple images in emails get turned into slideshows and gist urls get auto-embedded for code snippets. I liked tumblr because it allowed you to hack the HTML, built in themes, and integrated with Disqus, which is a new cloud hosted commenting system that travels with you, allows you to really have conversations on blogs and bring them into the social world.
And while I really wish the two services would combine forces, I quickly realized that for the front facing website, I needed a way to keep my feed burner RSS feed and have a decent look and feel. tumblr beat out Posterous there.
But!! BUT!! :: cue cheeky suspensful sound :: … Posterous has built in content distribution and one of those options is tumblr. This presents me with a win-win situation as I can take advantage of the features in one and use the other for my front end. I really love cloud computing and Web 2.0 companies :). And best of all, if I end up not liking tumblr and Posterous gives me some more front end flexability, it’ll be pretty transparent to flop over engines as the content will come from Posterous first…
Going forward…
I hope to make some more shorter posts, some content from twitter, some more pictures, and hopefully a decrease in comment spam.
I'm a Ruby developer that loves to play with science, math, and gadgets. Previously, I was part of a startup called drop.io, acquired by Facebook. I live in Fort Worth, TX with my wife, 2 dogs, and baby boy. I'm a foodie, a gamer, and a self proclaimed scientist.
