Blogging

I haven’t posted on this blog in quite some time. I also haven’t done much on twitter, facebook, or Linkedin either. Am I dead? No. I have been spending less and less time online than I used to.

If you are reading this, you fall probably fall in 1 of 3 categories, a friend or family members, a reader of Aximsite or Mobilitysite (or another spinoff), or just happened to come across it searching google for something I’ve ranted about. This post today is directed mainly at those in groups 1 and 2.

Why have I been offline more often than not lately? Mainly, changes in priorities, changes in hobbies, and just kind of busy too.

I started Aximsite as a hobby. I never expected it to get to the level it reached. Now that Axim is dead, the move to Mobilitysite has been somewhat successful. We average 1.3 – 1.5 million visitors a month. That’s not what this is all about to me. When it was purely a hobby, I really enjoyed knowing that I helped someone. We did a lot of that at Aximsite. In order to shift with the times and continue to have a readership, I had to shift gears. I enjoy the subjects we cover at Mobilitysite, but at the same time, I have grown somewhat bored with it all. It’s the same old same old, over and over now. Sometimes maintaining the site is more work than it is fun. It’s no longer a feasible hobby.

I am not quitting. I am just explaining why I am absent in other mediums like this blog and twitter.

Thanks for reading and sorry for not posting often here.

I spent some time this weekend updating Mobilitysite and this blog to WP 2.7. For Mobilitysite, it was a huge leap and is much better. For this blog, it’s a minor leap. The admin interface is going to take time to get used to, but the added features are awesome.

The Story Behind 2.7

The real reason Coltrane is such a huge leap forward is because the community was so involved with every step of the process. Over 150 people contributed code directly to the release, our highest ever, with many tens of thousands more participating in the polls, surveys, tests, mailing lists, and other feedback mechanisms the WordPress dev team used in putting this release together.

If you run a Wordpress Blog, I recommend it.