written February 1, 7:38am): Ye gods, how did it get to be February already? This whole writing journal entries in the morning to wake up my fingers will be so much more satisfying when I’ve actually got net….
Anyway, so standing there in the shower this morning, I contemplated something I’ve contemplated before, which is why do I not just use my livejournal and draw in journal entries from there instead of maintaining a separate MoveableType system?
Back In The Day, the answer was sort of MT maintains my geek cred, along with LJ’s servers being more hit and miss than I wanted, and not actually knowing how to code an LJ page to look like I want it to. The latter two things have pretty much been dealt with, and I’m less and less interested in maintaining geek cred these days. (This, I suspect, comes hand in hand with the revelation of a few days ago that I no longer can’t believe they’re paying me to write. Don’t get me wrong: it’s still the greatest job in the world. But I’ve come around to believing it’s actually my job, and that it’s not going to go away any time soon.)
I have this idea that the new MT deals with comment spam and threaded comment conversations, which are two LJ features I’d really like to have. OTOH, MT requires me paying for it, then configuring it to deal with those things, wereas LJ just requires me paying for it, which I’m doing anyway. I *don’t* think the new MT has the tidy cut feature that LJ has, which is another thing I’d like.
LJ’s one major flaw is requiring an ID to comment in order to avoid spam. I don’t actually object to that, and I think I can set it to allow anonymous commenters to be screened, or there’s the OpenID option which I know nothing about, but it is a bother for people who don’t have LJ accounts (like my Mom).
If I’m giving up pretenses of geek cred, I could switch my art and photo galleries over to snapshots.com or whatever it is that people are using that actually works, too…
I donno. I’ll have to think about it some more. I’m sort of afraid that using the LJ means I really have no excuse for maintaining mizkit.com, since it’s the source location for…well. 90% of my net presence, and 90% of that is my journal. And now that I think about it, that may be the real reason I’ve never switched over. Hrmph. Stupid internet. :)
For what it’s worth, I don’t require a username for comments on LJ (because I too have non-LJ friends and family) and I’ve had a total of 3 pieces of spam in the entire time I’ve had my account.
flikr.com for pictures – and you might to check out wordpress instead of MT – one, it’s free and still upgrading and improving all the time, and two, there are a *ton* of plugins for it that take little to no actual configuration. heh. I finally broke down and moved mine over, and *love* it.
See, that’s why my non LJ journals are on Drupal. It has all those features! Er, or most of them. And doesn’t require paying for it. But then, I’m very familiar with Drupal and work magic with it.
It’s actually funny, I used to really be annoyed at the people who’d have their non-LJ journals, and then not syndicate them so that I’d never get around to reading them. But nowadays, the quality and ubiquity of RSS readers have actually made LJ syndication less of an issue for me.