Subj : Re: Family vs Politics - Did
To   : Adept
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jan 15 2026 08:15 am

-=> Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ad> ...though I'm not sure I want to deal with a Wordpress install. I guess
 Ad> I'm biased (fairly or not) toward thinking that it's pretty
 Ad> heavyweight, and also connected to people who might not be reliably
 Ad> lined up with my interests.

 It is a little heavy for a one-person blog, but most hosting companies
 can turn it into a one-click install - they even supply additional
 templates or an AI page maker.

 Automattic has made some off-putting moves lately, and it's a little
 too much power for Matt Mullenweig. When you think that Wordpress
 powers some unreal percentage of web sites on the internet, it makes me
 wonder what having that kind of power can do.

 Ad> But I'm not even sure what content I want on the web. I tend to wind up
 Ad> with wikis that I mostly use for my own stuff, rather than as something
 Ad> to share.

 I have a category on my blog called "Google Posterity" - for
 information I'd found online that I didn't want to see dissapear.

 Ad> Theoretically I could write things that are more personal, but then I
 Ad> would want them in a restricted place, both semi-private and controlled
 Ad> by me.

 I just posted on my blog about LiveJournal - it is a wonderful
 long-form bloghost/social network where you can intermix public posts,
 posts for close friends, posts for acquaintances, and limit access by
 those group levels.

 I don't know if you experienced it back in the 2000s, but it was ideal
 for having a "presence" on the net for the public, a place to share
 more private details among a close-knit group, and to find public
 groups of people with common interests.

 It was very customizable, and tweaking blog templates became an
 obsession for some - and selling templates became a business
 opportunity as well.

 Facebook killed it off with "Short Attention Span Theater", and it's a
 shadow of its former self - as well as being hosted by a Russian
 company, which is a little concerning. The software is open source, and
 there are other instances of it running - Dreamwidth, for one.

 Writing it made me realize something about the old blogosphere - we
 didn't need a reason or a theme. Mine bounced between technical posts,
 photos I'd taken, and personal updates. We didn't have "brands" back
 then, or even know what we were doing.






 Ad> Without having a great idea on the content, it's hard to say what the
 Ad> proper tool is.

 Ad> That said, I had enjoyed what Octopress looked like, for blogging,
 Ad> though it seems to be abandonware, now. But Jekyl still exists, and
 Ad> that seems lightweight and easy.

 Ad> But probably doesn't easily do what you're talking about.

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