Archive for August, 2006

Blog Services: Insourcing Vs. Outsourcing

Friday, August 25th, 2006

When every tech-savvy blogger gets bored, whether (s)he’s has run out of addictive 2-D games to play or governments to exploit, (s)he inevitably ends up surfing around, searching for new features and gizmos to spice the old blog.

So, pictures this: you’re surfing the net when you come across a blogging tool you haven’t tried yet, at least, you don’t think. So, you attend the flashy Web 2.0 site for this great service, and you decide this looks pretty good, so you sign up for an account. Then, as you’re integrating your new favourite service, you come across what looks to be the same deal in your Blogger/Movable Type/Wordpress/MySpace/Live Journal (”Blog”) Dashboard. (more…)

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Back in Blacion!

Friday, August 25th, 2006

After four months back in school/under a rock, I’ve finally got time to breathe/blog again! It seems a lot has happened since I was away. Xfruits came into fruition, one of my blog communities kicked the bucket, Microsoft started public testing of the purpetual beta Longhorn Windows Vista, RIM bought out my last coop placement, and Bush found a new avenue for military spending. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.

In any case, I hope to enjoy at least another four months of mean verbal diarrhea before I head back to the Land of the Damned. Now if I can just stop playing with blog plugins, themes, add-ons, services and widgets; and actually write something in the damn thing, I’ll be good to go.

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