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July 22, 2005
The seductive lure of Wordpress
Back near the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005, there seemed to be this mass migration in the blogosphere towards Wordpress. Upon investigation, I found that there were many reasons that bloggers made the journey: issues with the "open source then not" stance of Six Apart, time for a change, nifty features, the sheep factor ("everyone else is doing it...").
Being the type of technologist that I am, sometimes I like to run out and grab the latest thing and play with it, but often I like to see how a new technology pans out for a period of time before I try to apply it myself. It's part useability observation, part learning from other people's mistakes, part procrastination waiting for the first update to the software before I spend the time installing and configuring.
In the case of Wordpress, it was also "I'm *way* too freakin' busy" and "I'm feeling a bit lazy about it right now". However, now I'm getting the itch. I've seen enough of what other people have done with it to see that even though my install of Moveable Type is not broken, I could still benefit from shift. Besides, then I might be able to do nifty stuff like turn my comments back on, and better tag my entries.
I suspect I might do this over the weekend, depending on how my presentation for IL 2005 is going (or, alternately, if I want to procrastinate some more from writing the presentation ;D). If not this weekend, then sometime, but I'll give you all fair warning so you don't feel like you entered the Twilight Zone here at LT or anything like that.
Post-install, I might do a "Moveable Type vs. Wordpress (and possibly vs. Blogger)" lowdown for the PLA Blog, as an original piece that might help libraries assess why they would choose one blog software over another, being as part of the goal at the PLA Blog is to educate librarians about blogs and what they can do for libraries.
Wish me luck!
July 22, 2005 7:58 AM