Hintonblogger

In an effort to streamline my blogging efforts, and to get a more full-featured blogging experience, I starting to use MarsEdit. My only issue is with the category support. MarsEdit doesn't seem to support free-tagging, which is what I'd really like to use. So I will experiment a little in the future with getting support for categories to work.

I highly recommend MarsEdit, by the way, though I've also heard that Ecto is good.

Well I have finally gotten my act together (for today anyway :) ) and moved all of the content from my previous blogging experience over here to the new home for hintonblogger. I'm really liking Drupal as a blogging platform - it is just so incredibly flexible. With Drupal 5.0 coming out and the ability to have distributions specific to different tasks, I think Drupal as a blogging platform will continue to grow in popularity.

As I had the chance to re-read my previous posts I realized why I love to blog. For me at least, it helps my own learning process, especially in applying other's great ideas to my own situations.

Alright, hopefully this is the last test post to make sure Technorati is getting my posts automatically.

I just am checking to see how well my blog can ping technorati. This is one area where I think Drupal can improve on the blogging front - integration with common blogging features (the ping concept especially). Right now Drupal only pings ping-o-matic by default and you can only add ping services by adding a module or hard-coding the changes in the ping module.

While I agree with the concept of keeping the Drupal core lean and mean, it seems to make sense that the ping module is configurable. If a person is going to use the ping module (which is part of Drupal core), Drupal should allow that person to choose sites to ping. Perhaps Drupal could offer a default set of sites to ping (and perhaps ping-o-matic is simply the default option). Of course if it really bothered me, I would put in an issue into the ping module asking for that feature (and/or sponsor an enhancement of that module).

I've had a significant hiatus from blogging and I am chomping at the bit to get back into things (not to mention having a significant backlog of draft blog entries to clear). Part of the hiatus has been because things have been crazy busy, between beginning some contract work with Remote-Learner, the start of the craziest school year yet, and, finally, migrating my blog over to Drupal, something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

If you happen along to my site, please give things a whirl for me, add a comment, try out my contact page, etc. It will help troubleshoot what issues I still need to iron as I migrate the little content I had on my previous blog site (run by Wordpress). I'm especially hoping my setup will allow me to avoid what may be the inevitable onslaught of comment spam, etc, and only get the important stuff - your comments.

Anyway, welcome back, thanks for stopping by.

I've decided to move my full-time blog to a more full-featured blogging interface.  I was looking for the option to email blogposts and to allow for comments, as well as some categorization features.  I'm running Wordpress at http://blog.hintonweb.com and want to invite you over there to take a look and leave comments, whatever you feel like.  If you do leave comments there is a registration required, however it's free and your information is totally confidential.  It's just a formality

Here is my first report I sent to eSchool News as a volunteer correspondent.  You can follow the different sessions (as well as my reports on the ones I was assigned - I have at least one every day) throughout the week at http://www.eschoolnews.com/cic/. 

MF235 – Drive for 2005 – 100% Participation Workshop Report

Welcome to my new Blog! I haven't decided if I will use it for much, but at least I've begun my blogging career. I want to thank all the little people (important is a nicer word) who have made this possible, especially my wife and kids.