[FRIAM] blog recomendations?
Hey all, Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about. Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated! Thanks, Eric FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
You'll be sorry. :) Look what happened to one discontented LANL employee when he started one http://parrot-farm.net/lanl-the-real-story/. Maybe it's ok to start one if you're *contented*, though. --Doug -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES e...@psu.edu wrote: Hey all, Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about. Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated! Thanks, Eric FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
I use Wordpress that I installed and hosted myself on a godaddy cheapie virtual host - mostly for the experience. You could use the hosted version( wordpress.com) which is free I think? I'm very happy with Wordpress and it seems to be oone of the most popular platforms. Cheers, Saul On 18 May 2011 08:56, ERIC P. CHARLES e...@psu.edu wrote: Hey all, Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about. Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated! Thanks, Eric FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- Saul Caganoff Enterprise IT Architect Mobile: +61 410 430 809 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scaganoff FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
I've been happy with tumblr.com for quite some time (I'm one of the contented ones ;). -Jon On May 17, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: You'll be sorry. :) Look what happened to one discontented LANL employee when he started one. Maybe it's ok to start one if you're contented, though. --Doug -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES e...@psu.edu wrote: Hey all, Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about. Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated! Thanks, Eric FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
Eric, I would not advise anyone to start a blog who didn’t have a genuine case of logorrhea. It’s like, gee, wouldn’t it be nice to have a daily column in the newspaper. Yeah, for about a week, but then…..? It’s like having to cook dinner EVERY night. I have logorrhea, but it’s a form of the disease called “responsive logorrhea”. Responsive logorhheaics (!??) are silent until asked a question, but once asked, can always be counted on to write an answer so long the questioner won’t possibly read it. Like, for instance, this message …. Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ERIC P. CHARLES Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:56 PM To: friam Subject: [FRIAM] blog recomendations? Hey all, Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about. Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated! Thanks, Eric FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
ho ho ho. Too true. Although personally I prefer 'compulsive communicator'. Victoria On May 17, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Eric, I would not advise anyone to start a blog who didn’t have a genuine case of logorrhea. It’s like, gee, wouldn’t it be nice to have a daily column in the newspaper. Yeah, for about a week, but then…..? It’s like having to cook dinner EVERY night. I have logorrhea, but it’s a form of the disease called “responsive logorrhea”. Responsive logorhheaics (!??) are silent until asked a question, but once asked, can always be counted on to write an answer so long the questioner won’t possibly read it. Like, for instance, this message …. Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ERIC P. CHARLES Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:56 PM To: friam Subject: [FRIAM] blog recomendations? Hey all, Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about. Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated! Thanks, Eric FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
Note: If you get hosting through HostMonster or BlueHost or any of those, there's no fee for domain registration. GoDaddy will charge you for registration, usually 11.99 a year, plus all sorts of other small duck- pecks that add up. ( I have several accounts with GoDaddy and for many things they are great, but if things get complicated, they will always help you but they may be wrong, or worse, break something. May be an unusual event, but a couple of months ago they actually deleted my entire website - database and all. They went off into their actual PHYSICAL TAPES (!!!) to find my site at a previous time and reinstalled it, but this all took two weeks, and left many broken links, and they never apologized or gave me a refund or credit. I am moving my sites to HostMonster, but doing it very carefully.) Victoria On May 17, 2011, at 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote: Hey all, Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about. Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated! Thanks, Eric FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?
Hi Eric WordPress. If you get stuck or need some customizing I can help you. There are tons of plugins for almost anything - very extensible. Robert Cordingley cirrillian.com http://cirrillian.com On 5/17/11 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote: Hey all, Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs and track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care about. Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated! Thanks, Eric FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
