Cephalopodcast

I made the mistake of upgrading the Cephaloblog this afternoon. It usually goes well, but I hit a little bump along the way while working with one of the sidebar widgets. I expect to get it sorted out tomorrow, but it got me thinking about the whole foundation this site is built upon.

I wonder at folks who use Blogger, Wordpress and other services to host their blogs. On the one hand it is free (or nearly so), but on the other hand they are entrusting all of their content to a another party. If those services die, or are compromised, then what happens to their content? It was enough of a concern that I decided early on to host my own blogging platform. There haven’t been too many glitches in the past. But this latest one made me realize that I am not much better off than the folks who don’t host their own. I don’t have a deep and daily understanding of the PHP code that underpins this blog. I can’t make it sing.

At our NMEA presentation, Rick repeated the notion that blogging is software. It is not the content, it is the medium that delivers the message. How we blog is not the same as what we blog.

So I got to a point where I am thinking about starting over. Maybe take this site two steps back before taking another step forward. I’ll still be here. But the floor I am standing on might be a different color.