Dead Ink Vinyl

In response Marc Farley and others pointing out that my blog doesn’t accept comments and doesn’t provide trackbacks, I have accelerated my search for an alternative blogging solution. Currently, I use TextPattern for my entire site. TextPattern is great as a full CMS solution — including allowing multiple people to contribute design and content in a controlled fashion — but for most of what I use deadinkvinyl.com, a simple blogging solution is sufficient. With trackbacks.

Consequently, I’m evaluating the migration of the blog portion of my site to blog.deadinkvinyl.com and using WordPress.com to host it. Unfortunately, WordPress.com doesn’t support Textile for editing articles — which I really like — but I’m willing to live with that trade off to have a solid, simple blogging platform. I have already migrated all of my articles from here and my old Blogger site and I am half way through the process of categorizing and tagging the old articles.

In the coming days, I will create an Apache Rewrite so that all incoming links to content on www.deadinkvinyl.com are correctly directed to the appropriate place in blog.deadinkvinyl.com. After that, I will update www.deadinkvinyl.com to be a simple information page.

I’ve found that I tweet instead of blogging when I have something to say. Many things can be compressed into 140 characters (scary, eh?), but some things can’t and I have a backlog of those things to use as blog material. So, starting today, I will blog something — anything — at least once a day.

I have settled on TextPattern as the best long-term solution for managing my site content. Over the next few weeks I will be consolidating my content from Another Student Pilot and the Dead Ink Vinyl Blog. Once that is accomplished, I plan to post articles twice a week.