Ratatat » Blogging http://www.ratatat.com About the Kids and Other Stuff Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:33:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Blogging Software http://www.ratatat.com/2009/01/blogging-software/ http://www.ratatat.com/2009/01/blogging-software/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:34:38 +0000 Sarah http://ratatat.com/wp/?p=3 January brings out the resolution in a girl. Blogging software always makes me a little sad, like I am taking the easy way out. Nuking the food instead of baking it. I wonder if other (potentially) labor saving devices throughout history have had the same effect. I learned HTML in Notepad, without any WYSIWYG editors. And then I had Pico–editing live on the server. When I gave in to Dreamweaver, I was suspicious, nervous, doubtful.  And now I respect it, even if it is still frustrating at times. I feel married to Dreamweaver. And now this easy little tart comes along. Oh Word Press. I flirted with Movable Type, until a disaster in hosting lost its password, never to be recovered.And went back to Dreamweaver, dependable, solid, capable of everything and anything.

That Movable Type experience shows me that Google loves blogging software. Those posts, which aren’t any better written, more exciting or better illustrated than my newer posts, get hits every day.

Why do I care? Am I after ad revenue, from my Reitman & Mueller-esque 7 listeners? Seems doubtful. But who knows? Just as banging your clothes on a rock by the river was replaced by the wringer washer, we now have a fancy front-loader. And soon I’ll have an RSS feed. If only Samsung created blogging spftware, I might feel better about this.

Good God! Where’s the spellcheck????

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