…but I am lazy. Really lazy. As much as I liked wordpress (and I really do, even enough to pay to go to Wordcamp last year here in Bmore), it was a pain in my ass to maintain.
The thing is: I get overwhelmed. There are so many shiny things I can do (twitter and facebook integration, plugins, countdown timers, and so on) but the more I add, the more bogged down I get and more likely I am to pitch it all in the ocean and just shut up.
(Let us not even speak of the litle voice saying No one cares what you think anyway. Let’s just not.)
And all I want to do is write and share. That “share” part is the reason that tumblr will probably never be my primary blog. Though let me not say “never” - I’ve seen people with tumblrs doing enough cool things and adding rss feeds and ads and comments and shit that I may just back up off my tumblr hate, suck it up, and deal. And I’m writing more now than I have in a year. Except. There aren’t searchable archives. And tumblr seems so insular, and I see so many people griping at each other lately (it’s like the new livejournal, I swear), and there’s this huge emphasis on community but I don’t need community. I need an outlet, even if the only people reading me are the ones who know me personally and the Internet never knows my name. (Except that’s sort of not true because doesn’t every [Leo] want to be famous, deep down inside?)
wordpress.com = been there, done that, blah.
And I can’t go to Blogger…it’s like the Walmart of blogging platforms and I have talked way too much shit about it in the past. And I can’t update it from work (hopefully no one from work has read this far).
So. Typepad? I just came this close to doing it. And I get a 14 day free trial. And while part of me balks at $8.95/month, it’s not like I’m hurting for the cash. And I can customize it without a lot of hassle. And a lot of blogs I respect use it. And I promise I’d sit on my hands and not be fiddly with it.
*sigh* All I want is to write and share. And not have to deal with domains or hosting ever again in life. (But it’s unavoidable, so let’s say: for the next few years or so.)
