Settling In to WordPress

[cahwyguy]

A little over a year ago, I moved my blog over from Livejournal to a WordPress blog hosted at California Highways. Did you notice? You might not have, because I continued to crosspost from WordPress to Livejournal. I made the move because Livejournal, as a platform, was getting increasingly shaky, with frequent denial of service attacks.

In the year since, I’ve continue to enhance the WordPress blog, and have expanded the crossposting to include Dreamwidth. I currently crosspost to Dreamwidth, and then Dreamwidth crossposts to Livejournal. People can comment on the blog using their Livejournal IDs; alas, this doesn’t work for Dreamwidth as Dreamwidth is not supporting the latest OpenID standards. I’ve got a ticket open.

Through the year, I’ve seen the number of comments on LJ go down as the level of usage of LJ has gone done. Despite claims that people were moving to DW, I haven’t seen that much activity from there. I’m not sure where people have gone: Tumblr? Facebook? Twitter? G+? Other subject specific groups? In any case, I see less and less long-form writing and thoughtful pieces. I guess the internet has been overtaken by the TL;DR generation. That’s too bad.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the first year of “Observations on the Road” on WordPress. Are you reading and finding it interesting? Are there ways I can make it better?

Music: Kwamina (Original Broadway Cast): “Welcome Home”

 

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