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07/26/2002 Entry: "Friday Five"
Friday Five:
1. How long have you had a weblog?
Since last November. You can't see anything before December, though, since that's when I switched from Blogger to Greymatter.
2. What was your first post about?
It was an explanation of how, since Sam kept me hopping to much to update the journal regularly, the weblog should help me fill in the gaps. It was followed immediately thereafter with a request for help in finding a free comments system that was taking new users.
3. How many changes (name, location, etc.) of your weblog have there been, if more than one?
There have been no real changes other than the switch to Greymatter. Honestly, since the blog was a way to save time, I haven't devoted a whole lot of thought to redesigning it or playing with it very much. Lately I've been considering a switch to Moveable Type, though. We'll see. I've got it installed, but the templates are confusing me greatly.
4. What CMS (content management system) do you use? Do you like it or do you want to try something else?
Greymatter! I like it just fine, though I don't much care for how long it's beginning to take to rebuild the thing whenever I make changes. I also have had Greymatter hork during one such rebuild, and even though I was able to resurrect it, the experience was rattling.
5. Do you read people who have both a journal and a weblog? Or do you prefer to read people who have all of their writing in one central place?
Honestly, I prefer those who have both. I think a journal frequently encourages deeper exploration of thoughts and experiences than a blog does, and there are times that call for that sort of probing and those that don't. For myself, I know that some moments beg to be recorded but don't necessarily need to be examined, and a weblog is wonderfully suited to that type of thing. I do like it when a writer has a place to muse in greater detail, though. I won't turn away from an in-depth blog, but a chatty, terse journal will sometimes turn me off.
