Switching to tumblr

I’ve been thinking about this for a while and have now decided I’ll be moving psionmark.com to tumblr.

The nature of this blog is short (and hopefully sweet) posts of mostly random stuff from my head. tumblr suits that kind of blogging perfectly. In addition, it has an awesome iPhone app, free domain pointing and a number of other features that I think make it more suitable for Psionmark.

I’ll still be using self-hosted WordPress for my main blogs (FlightSimX etc) as I still think it’s THE blogging platform for medium to large scale blogs.

See you over at psionmark.tumblr.com (domain pointing to psionmark.com in progress).

Ning, oh Ning, please sort out the frames

I’ve got a social network over at Ning. Overall, I’m pretty impressed with the service. You get a lot for your money, i.e. free. Well, not quite in my case, as I’ve gone for the ad-free option, but that’s my choice.

However, one thing they’ve got badly wrong is their handling of visitors from URL shortening services, Facebook etc. An earlier post covered my use of su.pr, which I’m finding is a terrific feature. However, if I try and use it, or most other URL shorteners, for a Ning site, you get the rather ugly message shown below.

Not good

To make matters worse, the “click here” link always takes you to the root of the site, not the linked page! Even worse, Ning provide a “Share” button for pretty much everything on the Networks, yet even their own links return this error! This is just plain stupid.

So, come on Ning. Sort it out, please. If you can’t or don’t want to, at least remove the Share links, as they’re worse than useless.

Red and black and kinda weird, but I like it!

So, what do you think of the new theme? I fancied something a little different and it sure is that!

Not sure if it’s a keeper yet, but I’ll try it out for a while.

I had a quick play with SquareSpace over the weekend. It does look pretty neat, but I’m not sure it’s really worth the $14 a month you’d need to pay to get a custom URL. It was pretty easy to import my blog from here, although the images needed some work to remove some tags. Overall, nice as it is, there’s nothing shouting “Wow, this is amazing. I must move over right away”, so I’ll be here for a while longer at least.