I never really considered myself much of a blogger. But one fine day, just sitting around, me and a good friend of mine started discussing how Facebook and Twitter and any other social medium we find ourselves in are not provoking the kind of conversations we'd like to be having.
I sat on that thought for a few days. Facebook and Twitter don't promise to be anything that they aren't, and for that reason there's nothing wrong with them. But I want to share more than a couple sentences or some website that I thought was funny, so I began researching some blogging platforms.
My first thought was that I should develop my own. Did I mention I'm a mediocre web developer? Anyway, after finishing a simple CRUD platform with some flashy AJAX features, I realized I'd get more bang for my buck if I just used one of the great free services that are already available. Then began my research.
I found two articles comparing blogger and tumblr that I completely agreed with. This one and this one. After reading those, I realized that blogger was the way to go for what I wanted. As a web developer I am quite impressed with Tumblr. They definitely know how to grab users. Everything is so easy, what with being able to re-blog and post from your mobile. But that is exactly the kind of behavior I'm trying to get away from. Those sort of tools don't provoke new, fresh thoughts and ideas. They only perpetuate peoples' need to win some kind of invisible online popularity contest.
Anyway, I'll probably be posting in a large range of subjects. It'll probably include life in general, web design, development, stuff about technology, rants, stories, tutorials, and the occasional funny link.
I'm realizing it more and more each day.
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