things that i remember

New Project

I'm going to move this blog back to Wordpress.  This decision is the result of a few things:

  1. I'm working on building a long-term web presence and want ultimate flexibility.
  2. Posterous has very limited options to monetize this blog.  Right now my Adsense account is only linked to feedburner and among my initial readership (friends and family), few are subscribers because few know what RSS is.
  3. Having a more robust monetization effort will allow me to learn more about web analytics and will encourage me to drive more traffic.
  4. Wordpress gives me more license to also optimize my blog for SEO, especially once I launch on my own hosted domain.
  5. I'll have the chance to tweak and maybe create my own Wordpress theme, which will give me experience with languages such as HTML and CSS.
  6. I've been working on building a blogging tool that is similar to Skribit, and am trying to implement it in simple form as a Widget.  Wordpress will give me the largest userbase to allow for testing and analytics for the new app.  This will also be a great excuse to learn PHP on my own.
  7. This will keep me busy for quite some time!  Especially if boredom hits (inevitably) over winter break!