Archive for 2/28/2006

I’m starting to get really sick of auctions like this:

While perusing the latest article over at Performancing entitled Blog About What You Love, The Money Will Follow, I had to sit back and really think about what encourages me to write on this, my virtual pulpit-o-love.

Well, though it is contrary to the spirit of the article, it’s not [currently?] about the money. (As regular readers will notice, I switched themes and broke my Google ads, and I’m not even sure when I’ll get around to fixing them.)

While I would love to believe that whining about technology can pay my electric bill, I’m not anyway near the point where I think that’s a viable option.

So the more I think about it, the reasons that I will write on my blog, usually center around the same reasons I am glued to Bloglines at all hours of the day: I love new things and new people.

I know that any day of the week (hour of the day?) I can flip through link after link, and I can find an Infinite Number of Celebrities lurking within. It’s exciting to think that the everyday flashes of brilliance that everyone has are now often captured for others far beyond their reach to experience. 

Of course, a lot of mundanity is captured as well, and sometimes it can be just as interesting. Whether it’s the raving of dooce on her family activities or Michael’s opinion on the latest movie, they all add value and can be just as enlightening as any speech made by any of innumerable well known leaders, or as funny as a joke by stand up comedians that finally ‘made it’ on HBO or Comedy Central.

with AJAX, RSS, drag and drop, and friendly pastel color palettes.

This is probably one of the best contendors for a very easy to use blogging engine that I have seen.

Of course, some minor complaints:

• No image upload in posts
• No WYSIWYG editing (but simple Textile formatting)

I’ve been trying to keep an eye out for something with moderate customizability and low barrier of entry for a website or blog for my family members. Ideally it should be as WYSIWYG as you can get, while offering some basic layout change capabilities and image management (gallery, inclusion, etc.).

Besides Logahead, anyone else have examples of contendors in this space?