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GeekNights 070115 - Content Management Systems
Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about Content Management Systems. In the news, we have the iPhone and test-tube babies.
Scott's Thing - Adventure Time
Rym's Thing - Nagano > Any American Gladiator
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For those who are curious:
A frames based website I setup years ago
My current blog running on Serendipity
I set this site up using CMS Made Simple
This is a very basic install of PHP-Nuke. It will become a functioning website at some point in the future. It's for Girl Scouts...
Knowing what I know now I would have gone with WordPress for my blog. I tried to port over to it but got tons of errors and I could not get my links to match up with the old links. Why is that important? Google. After the last PR update I jumped from PR 3 to PR 5 and if my links are broken then the Google searches will not send traffic to my site until those links get fixed. Since some of the things I do are time sensitive I can't afford to take that risk.
I just read your blog post about the IPhone. Was that a transcript of the Geek Nights episode or an original blog post? ;-)
I work in Telecom, I have an iPod and I'm one of those folks who is against "technology for technologies sake."
I made up the 90% number because I could not remember (and was too lazy to look up) the actual statistics.
I have used something similar to the "iWidget" line in other blog posts.
Some of the other comments in the blog post you can find echoed in comments I have left on Digg.
Rym and Scott inspired me to write in the way people running out of a burning building can inspire you to also run out of that burning building.
Also: post dates are just that, the date the item was published to the blog. I have several articles in draft mode waiting in the wings on my blog. When I publish them I change the date to the current date so they will appear on top.
In any event... just trying to poke a little fun at Steve. I actually enjoy his blog quite a bit.
For the past few months I've been working on an email interview with Tom Vasel, I might just post what I have so far and call it "part 1"....
If you do not know who Tom Vasel is, he is the man behind the Dice Tower. He posts tons of game reviews under a public domain license so they spread all over the web fast!
I was a little disappointed when I realized that the boardgame reviews on your website were Tom Vasel's. This was for a couple of reasons:
1) I like it when a blog is comprised of the thoughts of the blog owner. Throwing in the writings of others can make it helter skelter.
2) Tom's reviews are EVERYWHERE - usenet, boardgamenews.com, boardgamegeek.com, the dicetower.com, rpg.net, amazon.com, etc. At a certain point, it becomes overload.
3) He writes so many reviews, that there isn't anything "special" to them. In other words, he's doing it for the sake of doing it, and not because he has the urge to say something in particular. I'm not knocking this. I think it's fine for something like boardgamegeek. I just don't think it's blog material.
Okay... I'll stop picking on you now. Just some constructive criticism. I'm actually quite impressed with the effort you put into your blog.
Tom's content may be "over-played" but, since he posts it as soon as he writes it I have it before everyone else copies it from him. I'm working on getting him to write some non-review gaming articles but I have a limited budget.
As it is, I write 50%+ of the content on the blog but I do have other authors who post a piece now and then.
I have about 10 pieces in draft mode right now that just need some polishing up before publishing. The iPhone one was started last week after the keynote but I decided to push it out Tuesday because I figure more posts like it will be coming by the big players soon enough.
I blog because I enjoy writing (even though I am not very good at it) and to pay my web hosting fees. In fact, I just sold a ton of my old AD&D materials to a reseller and I now have enough money for a Wii, if I only I could find one!!! Once I do get one I will begin buying Wii games and reviewing them.
My board game group meets about twice a month and I am trying to set something up where we jointly review a game. This way you can get a perspective on a game from a wide variety of age groups. (The ages in my group range from 15 to 35, high school, college, married, single, with kids, without kids, etc...)
By all means, criticize! I can take it and make changes. I know I'm not the be all end all of blogging!
PS: more game reviews by me are coming and some are already on the site.
I've got a blog out there, but I'm not advertising it. You'd have to stumble upon it, and even then you would not know that it was mine.
I'm actually doing it to keep track of a major project that I'm working on. It's a complicated project, and the blog is just as much for me as it is for other people. It helps me to keep track of where I am, how much things have cost, what needs to be done, etc. Once the project is completed (in a few months) I might try to advertise the blog - but I don't really have any desire to do that until the project is done. Part of my concern is that the project may fail. It's a long story, but if things don't line up just right, the project is doomed. So far things look good, but there are still a couple of hurdles to get over.