The WordPress Blog option

I experimented with a couple of options for the blog. The primary requirements were for easy posting for me and reasonably secure commenting for the public. I started with the Disqus tool because it seemed to be well used on major news sites for comments and I figured I could just be another commentator. And it was drop dead easy to implement.
In practice, the free version struggled with WYSIWYG editing but more importantly, as an app, it was constantly calling back home for updates, part of its social media capability I guess.
This was killing the response time of my site.

I ended up abandoning Disqus for the free WordPress blog tool. This was also easy to install since this site is hosted at Dreamhost which integrates several common site applications, including the basic WordPress app, into “one-click” installs. This with a few free plug-ins produced the blog you are seeing here. WordPress has easy commenting to my posts (note the shift in hierarchy here), and as an added bonus, it offers “Pages”, whole webpages built into the blog and accessible via it’s own top nav (see “About” above).

I may use the one-click Wiki-Media install as a documentation tool at some point. This is more structured and has the added benefit of public editing. With the proper Spam prevention (I don’t want to be in the full time editor role here), this could be a powerful communication of work I’m engaged in.

Stay tuned… ~jgp