To steal a line from Jason Fried, I never really had a personal blog. To me, the blog idea always seemed cool, but the amount of sheer hassle involved just deterred me.
First you have to choose a platform, then you need to decide what software you are basing it on, and then go through a configuration nightmare to get everything looking “just right.” Even the more “out of the box” solutions like WordPress just required too much configuration and maintenance to make it worth my while. It gets even more involved if you want to create anything that is hosted away from the platform holder itself. In short, it’s just a bit confusing mess that always left me feeling less intelligent than I did before I started looking into it.
So this whole “HEY World” idea is really striking my interest. After all, I send emails all the time, and the ease of use is central to the success of email as a communications medium. To be quite honest, my thoughts are often disorganized and jumbled, and that makes the thought of putting in the effort required to make a “proper” blog all the more annoying. So this post is something like dipping my toes into the water once again, to see if blogging is something I can get into, if it’s made as simple as possible.
Depending on how I feel after posting and getting a hang of how management of posts work, I will decide whether or not to dump more time into this. Personally, I kind of hope I do. The promise of HEY World as a blogging platform is making me just as interested as the promise of HEY as an email platform. If anyone can make blogging a sensible, straightforward thing again, it’s probably the fine folks at Basecamp.
First you have to choose a platform, then you need to decide what software you are basing it on, and then go through a configuration nightmare to get everything looking “just right.” Even the more “out of the box” solutions like WordPress just required too much configuration and maintenance to make it worth my while. It gets even more involved if you want to create anything that is hosted away from the platform holder itself. In short, it’s just a bit confusing mess that always left me feeling less intelligent than I did before I started looking into it.
So this whole “HEY World” idea is really striking my interest. After all, I send emails all the time, and the ease of use is central to the success of email as a communications medium. To be quite honest, my thoughts are often disorganized and jumbled, and that makes the thought of putting in the effort required to make a “proper” blog all the more annoying. So this post is something like dipping my toes into the water once again, to see if blogging is something I can get into, if it’s made as simple as possible.
Depending on how I feel after posting and getting a hang of how management of posts work, I will decide whether or not to dump more time into this. Personally, I kind of hope I do. The promise of HEY World as a blogging platform is making me just as interested as the promise of HEY as an email platform. If anyone can make blogging a sensible, straightforward thing again, it’s probably the fine folks at Basecamp.
Katherine Cramer
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers