I've decided that (for now) I'm moving to Tumblr, and (for probably forever) moving away from Blogger. Tumblr just works better for me.
As such, I'm moving this blog to oldblog.jebdm.net and my new one to blog.jebdm.net. Hopefully, that won't create too much confusion.
I may migrate some of my posts at some point (with revisions, yippee!) Hopefully there's some automated way to do this.
I'm dissatisfied with the state of blogging software. Sure, it's good, and for some people it may even be perfect. But I'm looking for something rather specific, so I'm beginning to think I may need to roll my own.
The closest thing I've found so far is Tumblr. Tumblr has been described as "blogging lite"- it makes everything quick and easy, reducing the emphasis on traditional short-article blog posts by making it easy (and with the built-in themes, attractive and un-clunky) to post things like images, quotes, transcripts, and links. The main problem I have with Tumblr is that it is fixed in to those categories; there's no way (other than crude hacks) to add other varieties of posts. This functionality seems relatively easy to add, so I'm not sure why it's not avaliable.
Besides the categories issue, the other main problem I have with Tumblr is the lack of power in general. I don't blame this on Tumblr; power would be rather contrary to it's purpose. But I want more out of my blog. I want to be able to customize my layout to an extreme; I want it to be modular; I want to show different views of my content; I want "static" pages; I want more control over the way that comments display on my site (though the Disqus comment system seems pretty cool); I want, in short, more.
Nonetheless, I'm going to continue using Tumblr for a week or two, just to get a better feel of it. I'll post "real" content here still (that is, original content, not just links, etc.) and link to it from there. In the mean time, I guess I should put together a list of the features I want and either search harder or get programming.
Link to my Tumblr blog
While this was clearly a technical glitch, it made me giggle. ("Oddly Enough" usually features articles such as "Lamb-eating sea eagles upset Scottish farmers" and "Huge pig sent to stud after holding woman hostage".)
Sorry about the lack of original content lately; I'm plowing through backed-up RSS feeds (the source of these links), working a lot, and trying to organize my life. A site redesign is coming soon (though I may not use Blogger; what I want to do might require a custom platform) as well as some essays, etc. Also, if you haven't noticed, the vast majority of things I've posted have been links to multimedia; in other words, not long writings and such. That's because I'm just pushing anything that's going to take me more than ten minutes into Read it Later.
I'm Jeb, a seventeen year old sophomore at Bard College at Simon's Rock. Here you'll find a collection of my thoughts, ideas, and musings, with a couple of links thrown in as well.
It's a great place to be if you enjoy reading the rants of some no-name blogger. I hope you'll find something that makes your visit worthwhile.
(Redesign pending)
