Progress Update

Did a little designing, thinking, and researching tonight after putting aside real work (that is to say - the kind that pays bills as opposed to the kind that strokes my ever-growing ego).

Mitcz.com will be coming soon. Er.. as soon as I can clear a spot in my schedule for it. Let’s hope this doesn’t drag on, I really need a catch-all site for all of my writing, link-posting, reviewing, and bitching. Mitcz.com will be that site. RevMitcz.com will continue to exist, as a sister site, for my professional exploits - whereas Mitcz.com is "just for fun".

What I’ve discovered is that I can send you LJ types an RSS feed that you can add to your friends page, thereby keeping you "in the loop" as to my goings-on, whilst keeping me free of the LJ proprietary system. Not that I really have altogether too many issues with LJ on its own, but it’s too constricting for integration and the commenting system (as it is, after all, hosted by LiveJournal) tends to turn a lot of people off. Furthermore, customizing it isn’t quite as simple and "fun" as a full-on weblog. There’s a variety of other reasons, but I’ll save you the geek banter until it’s all implemented.

Anyway, the RSS feed will replace my regular LJ, Gravatar.com can get you a spiffy little avatar if you’re so inclined (no login needed, and it’ll securely hide your e-mail address), and/or you can use TypeKey (possibly.. cause I’m still toying w/this idea) to post comments. Either way, it’ll likely be easier than having to log in to LJ to comment.

After weighing the pros and cons of MovableType (my long-time blogging friend) versus WordPress (the free, open-source, new kid on the block), I’ve decided to go w/WP. Three main reasons : It’s free (whereas MT can be anywhere from $70 - $300, depending on what I wanna do), it’s got a native LiveJournal entry importer (whereas MT, despite being owned by the same parent company, has no easy/direct way of doing this without complicated PERL scripts), and because of it’s being free I’ll want to be able to use this on future projects I do for clients and I’ve been meaning to learn WP for just that purpose.

If you’re not a total geek, or keeping track of the all-too-exciting goings on of the Mitcz Marketing Machine - you can safely ignore this post.

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