New blog

As previously announced, I’ve moved my blog to its new home at http://blog.johnmilner.com. I’m starting fresh on the Posterous platform as it look to be pretty dead simple and should make quick posts and media posts much easier. Moreover, I’m looking forward to changing my posts from more long form to short tidbits and pulling in other content I find interesting.  Rather than try to import over my prior posts from this blog. I’m going to leave this wordpress version as an archive for the time being. I won’t be updating this blog, but for as long as it makes sense I’ll keep the archives here on johnmilner.com. So go ahead and check out blog.johnmilner.com, if you subscribe to the RSS feed it’s been updated for you by feedburner. Someday, I’ll find something to put up here on JohnMilner.com

Moving this blog

You may have noticed the last of blog posts recently. Frankly, I’ve sort of gotten tired of the long form blog posts. With tiwtter, RSS, facebook, et all, so much of my time spent consuming content and communicating has shifted to these other platforms. Now, more than ever, sharing pictures, links, or quick posts is my preference. Sure, i could rework this wordpress install to be more flexible for how I’ve changed (one of the great things about word press) but in the interest of time, i feel like starting fresh. I like my existing template, but its slow sometimes, it’s gotten busy with everything on the side bar, So I’m going to go a more minimalist path, something simple, fast, and viewable on a mobile device. Moreover, the admin side of Wordpress is so feature rich it’s become cumbersome to use and I actually want to avoid it, I feel I’ll post more often without it. I’m still debating between Tumblr and Posterous as platforms, right now Posterous is wining, it’s just dead simple and they’ll move over my old post from here (I think, if i want to). Only problem is I’ll loose all the comments from Disqus

Stay tuned for an update on the move. I’m debating whether to move over the archives from this blog or not (if I’m going to move the domain over, i really should or else the history will basically be lost), but if you’re subscribed to the RSS feed that should remain the same.

The other area of my social media life I’m deciding how to handle is Flickr.com. Right now a lot of photos get posted to my account (mostly from my mobile as an alternative to twitpic.com). If i go to Posterous i can still have my mobile photos posted, or i could remove them from Flickr and leave Flickr for more refined pictures and albums.

If you have any suggestions, let me know.