On? Going? Going on? Is something going on? I realy ought to post whether something is or not… 😉 I don’t post nearly often enough here.
My techblog got two posts in ten minutes the other day, and I leave my personal blog weeks without a thing happening? Hardly fair. But I do a lot more techie stuff than not! 😉 In fact, just to be unfair, I’m gonna have a techie thingy later in this post. Why? You’ll see. But anyway.
School is over. Finito. Complet. All gone, bye bye, whoo see ya! I didn’t get the stunning stellar grade point that I have in the past, but I didn’t flunk anything by a long shot! (Except physics which was kinda close…) My diploma is in the mail and I have probably less than a month of access to NSA’s servers. Scary thought, that. We had a little grad party which I was dragged to against my will. Dan posted more about that. My book is coming along well, and while it’s a far cry from the ‘done’ I thought I might be able to pull off by the end of June, it is probably about half done. I think I may have actually hit something close to resembling publishible quality if I polish this. Not that that means anything, except that I am very satisfied with my own work 🙂
Techy part. For any of you who blog in any capacity, using any service. Yes, even (and perhaps especially) you Xangans! I’m running a survey on my tech blog about the perfect blogging service. I know you Xangans think yours is the perfect blogging service, but bear with me 😉 I would greatly appreciate your answering the servey and saying what features (that Xanga has, or doesn’t have) you would like most in your blog service. It will be great to get feedback from the more teenage-personal-blogger / Xanga side of the line as well as from the give-me-code-or-give-me-death side 😉
You know what you want from your blogging service. If you use Blogger, you may have written a ‘Beef up Blogger‘-style post, even. Or a Beef up WordPress post without depending on services like WebCitz. Or maybe even a Beef up Xanga post (yes, there are some real bloggers on Xanga). I at one point even had a rating breakdown to see how well blogging services matched up to my ideal! While my opinions have changed over time, one thing still remains – no service is perfect. No matter what you use there are things you wish your service could do. That’s why we have blog hacks!
This post is a survey. What is the perfect blogging service? We’re all going to answer differently, but hopefully some patterns will emerge. What features are important? Forget for a moment what is supported by your particular platform and just tell us what you want. Not what you wish you had, but what you want even if you have it. Trackback can be important to you even if you use WordPress. Maybe that’s why you’re using WordPress.
The purpose of this survey is not to determine one particular existing service that is the ‘perfect blogging service’, but rather to identify the feature set that is important to bloggers.
You can respond to this survey by leaving a comment on this post (probably preferred) or by writing a post on your blog and linking back here. I don’t trust blog search or backlinks, so I’d really appreciate trackback pings if you decide on the latter, or a comment with a link to your post.