Tag: posterous

…these thoughts are my own!

Back in July, I signed up to and created a Posterous blog. I was interested in looking at other blogging platforms and was also considering starting a #365 project. The blog sat dormant until today.

I ruled out a #365 in favour of allowing the blog to develop more organically as a place where I can post on any topic, while explore posting in different formats and styles. It is to become a place where I will capture “moments” from my life as they occur.

I got the ball rolling with some thoughts on politics inspired by a spoken word recording I had been listeing to this morning.

You can find my posterous blog here: jamesmichie.posterous.com.

I hope you enjoy reading it and as always feel free to comment.

Moving!

This blog [jamesmichie.blogspot.com] will be moving to a new home very soon.

I spent several hours yesterday afternoon/evening tinkering with both WordPress and Posterous and have concluded that WordPress will be my platform of choice. I am going to use Posterous for a future #365 project and with my students due to its ease of use. As @stevegillott put it, Posterous is more of a “fire and forget thing”. Which is great for newbie bloggers but does not suit my needs.

I have already set up the WP blog and it is under construction. My new home is “jamesmichie.com/blog” and you can follow its progress over the next few days as I set it up. I have already transferred two of my static pages from this blog. I have added follow buttons, a CC license, search box, TweetMeme button and I have teaked the CSS chnging the font to Helvetica and the colour of hyperlinks.

When will the move be finished? It is my hope to have the move complete by the end of the weekend. My next full blog post will hopefully reach you from my new home. 🙂

Should I Move My Blog?

Having bought the domain jamesmichie.com and spent some time creating a landing page, I would like to move my blog to jamesmichie.com/blog. However, Blogger will not allow me to do this as it is neither the original domain nor is it a sub-domain. Therefore, I have been left with a choice. Keep my blog where it is and redirect from jamesmichie.com/blog (as it does now) or move my blog to a different blogging platform. This could be quite a bit of work and is therefore not an easy decision to make.

When I am struggling to make a decision I turn to mind mapping, so I can way up the pros and cons. Here is what I came up with this morning over a cup of coffee:

should i move my blog

What do you think? Stick with Blogger? Move to WordPress? Or move to Posterous? Your thoughts and comments are welcome.

To view the mind map as a downloadable PDF click here.

Boo #4: Blogging

What is your preferred blogging platform to use with students?

[Edit] Results of the poll were interesting. Posterous came out on top with 37% of the vote confirming its status as blogging platform of the moment. It was followed by WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr. However, no one platform gained a majority of votes reflecting the diversity of blogging experiences across my PLN.

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