We’re On The Disqus Train

I’ve been procrastinating moving this blog to Disqus… and today I’ve finally taken the plunge.

It took 5 minutes to setup and a half hour to sync my existing comments – which was what I was worried about. It even maintained the nested comment structure in place on existing comments – I didn’t expect that.

Thinking about switching? You should.

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5 Reasons I Moved My Personal Blog To Posterous

Today I moved my personal blog to Posterous from WordPress. Why, you ask, would a WordPress lover like myself do that… Here’s why.

1. I don’t want to manage YAWS (yet another wordpress site)
2. Posterous makes it too easy not to post
3. Posterous cross-posts to my other networks making it similar to Ping.fm
4. I can have a custom domain and run Google Analytics
5. I don’t want to have to think about it – and Posterous solves that problem marvelously

Why not Tumblr? I went back and forth on this for a few days and just decided to go with Posterous for the simplicity + cross posting feature.

What can you expect there? Random pictures, funny stuff, personal ramblings, etc…

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WordPress 2.8 Is Available

First and foremost, 2.8 is way faster to use. We’ve changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.

The core and plugin updaters in previous versions of WordPress have been such a success we decided to bring the same to themes. You can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.

via WordPress.org

We upgraded this morning without a hitch!

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What’s The Future Of Home Entertainment?

For the last several years I have been looking for the holy grail of media consumption. Two years ago I wrote this post asking for an a la carte tv service. I’ve changed my mind on how that model should work – but that’s a different post altogether. But since then we have come a long ways – but we’re not quite there.

Hulu has taken the concept of providing media to consumers when/how they want it to the next level by taking it mainstream – but it’s not quite there yet. Their latest offering – Hulu Desktop – is very cool and proves the market demand exists… But it’s hard to find a non-geek with a PC hooked up to their television.

South Park and PBS are pioneering commercial distribution of media on the web but the future is not media silos.

Netflix and Amazon are close to getting it right and their partnership with Roku and integration with XBOX are almost there.

But we’re not quite there yet. What’s going to take this to the next level? Boxee shows promise. But honestly, I think Microsoft has the best chance…

Why? 3 things – XBox, Partnerships, and market reach. Oh, and they’ve been planning it for ten years.

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