If David Sparks says I need to go Kobo. Iām going Kobo. Great episode
"Sparks. David Sparks.
"Say, look at this cool mouse Q rigged up for me! Can you believe itās got a laser built into it?
āHey, I should like make a video to tell people about this cool mouse. How about that?ā
āWow, uh, cool David. Tell me, does your new truck have a laser too?ā
āNo. But itās got a leaser. I feel kinda bad about that.ā
I enjoyed the conversation about the concept of a āNow Page.ā
It occurred to me that the issue of maintaining a history of such Now pages could be solved by the concept of a āThen Pageā.
The maintenance of such a Then Page would lend itself to automation as each time the Now Page is changed then the old one can be added to the top of the Then Page to form a historic log in reverse time order.
This is a very good idea.
Agreed, that yins my yang.
What Iām doing now is just making a new post on my blog with the last update and adding the āarchiveā tag. I do like the github solution too though.
Iām just duplicating the current Now html page, changing the name to the date, moving it to an Archive folder and adding it to an index.html file. Iāll start archiving c. March 1st, or whenever I modify the current now page.
Iāve added several slash pages this year as part of my move away from WordPress.
I started an āUpdatesā page on my blog last summer after Davidās initial post describing his āWhat Iām doing Nowā page.
There was a mention in the episode about collecting page URLs from Forum members: hereās mine: Updates Updates - Original Mac Guy.
I have a non-traditional now page. I want to make a ācurrentlyā page to share more of the content people put on a now page, as mine is focused on each specific day. I have three offices that I spend time at and sometimes community appointments. I wanted a place to update and share where I will be easily. You can see it at VSP.ink/now. If you are interested in how I made it and some of the rationale, you can see what I post and write Building Services for My Students: Helping to Share Information and Connections.
What are you switching to?
So far, Iāve moved one WordPress.com blog to Posthaven. Iām working on moving a Blogger blog there as well. I moved another WordPress self-hosted blog to Pika.page. Both are stripped-down, markdown based systems, with export options.
My two oldest (over twenty years) sites are still on self-hosted WordPress. Still mulling over options for them.
Two terrific recommendations @Medievalist. I remember Posterous and hadnāt realised it had been ārebornā.
Which of the two Pika. Page or Posthaven, do you prefer?
I had no idea Posterous had been reborn, either. I moved from it to Tumblr, back in the day.
I think for most people Iād reccomend Pika.page. The draw of Posterous for me was mostly that after a year, I can permanently archive sites. Thereās nothing wrong with it, and if you have a number of small sies, itās a bargain. But it is very basic.
I like the transparency and active development of Pika.page quite a lot.
Iām currently leaning towards moving my two large, venerable, active self-hosted sites from WordPress to paid Ghost hosting. Ghost is a little more command-line-ssh-driven than I want to be, these days.