prolific.org

Eachman kills the blog you know. Daily personal blogging takes place at VOX. Links, feeds and other delicacies continue to be served here.
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VOX, Six Apart’s new blogging tool, is now open to everyone. I’ve been using it for a couple of months now and (as you may have noticed) it’s made me forget about this here MT-powered self-made blog that I’ve had for the last 7 years. Why? Because I, like everybody else, have less time to spare and want everything to be quick and easy at this point in my life. Maybe when I retire I’ll go back to hand-coding my thoughts in Notepad, but right now, I want VOX.

Vox doesn’t do everything I want. I can’t import delicious, last.fm, upcoming, etc like I do here, but it does all the basics really well. But most importantly… all my mates are there in my own little neighbourhood! With it’s privacy features, it’s perfect for the easy, ’secret’ blogging of stuff you want only your best friends and/or your family to read. It’s free, so give it a whirl, and invite your mates or maybe your techno-phobe dad.

Hmm, that came out like a copywritten advertisement. It’s not. Honest.

So what am I gonna do with eachman.com? Well, I’m thinking of reverting back to prolific.org and making this an aggregate-only hub. I think I’ll be stripping this site of its current ‘design’ soonish.

Oh dear, oh dear. Never thought something as pedestrian as me not getting on with a piece of software would launch such debate (1, 2). We seem to have stepped on some toes. It’s enough to drive this n00b away from the tool and its l33t community. For the record, let me state what I like about WordPress: 1. PHP. Yes, because it’s fast. 2. Its distinction between posts and pages. 3. It’s free.But it’s not about code or tools or plugins. It’s about blogging.