Should I start a podcast about blogging issues? Wanna be a guest on the show?
Not exclusively “how to blog” or “make money blogging” or “build your corporate identity with a blog”, but real discussions about issues in blogging today with people who actually publish blogs, not just pundits.
We’ve been working on rolling out Habari 0.4 for months, since 0.3 came out really. There are a lot of great changes in 0.4. The bad part is that nobody can get motivated enough to release 0.4, or they have a personal agenda to include certain features to be in 0.4 before its release in spite of long discussions about “release early, release often”. It’s so many things that separately are insignificant but together leave 0.4 floundering and gasping on the shore instead of spawning like it should.
For example, let’s talk about the logo just briefly as an example of where we’re spending pointless effort. The logo was the very first thing that the community attacked, and the best that anyone came up with in rebuttal was a capital letter “H”, some remixed clipart, and RKO-style radio transmission rings. Whereas what we have now has history, mystique, prints well in black and white, and functions fairly well as a Habari brand icon. So why are we even talking about this?
I’ve had so much to say over the past two weeks, and no desire at all to write about any of it. It seems like I should do a dictation or something, and have my secretary write out my blog posts for me. Perhaps I will look into a service soon – I’ve always thought that my blog entries would sound better if I read them instead of writing them. In any case, here’s a brief summary of topics of things that I should have written about but didn’t.
I got a shave two weeks ago - a real one in a barber’s chair with a straight razor. I actually did write about this, but I wasn’t near the internet when I did it, and I’m not sure where my notebook is at the moment. I’m sure that post will appear when I finally stumble across the notebook bag.
Man, this week has been difficult. We’ve had a few server issues with work clients, and I’ve been playing around with my own servers, and it’s just been a mess that I’m hoping will be in the past come next week. But I’ve learned some lessons, and I figure I might as well pass them on because people are apparently still buying hosting from really bad places.
What do I need? This is the most basic question you need to start asking yourself before you even hunt for hosts. Having some idea of your demands, both from a technical perspective and a logistical perspective can save you some pain in the future. Here are some really basic considerations: