I'm Paul Jones

I've been playing around with various different blog platforms over the past week or so to find the one that works best for me.

I used Sweetcron for a while, and even went so far as to build my own theme for it. Then I decided I didn't like it, for a lot of the same reasons the Sweetcron creator doesn't like it. Here's my own reasoning.

Sweetcron is great in a 'fire-and-forget' kind of way. You hand it a bunch of feeds from various websites, like Flickr and Delicious, and it makes them into a nice little blog-like stream of all your activity.

This is where sweetcron started to fall down for me. I normally use Instapaper to queue up stuff to read and then binge on it over the course of an hour or so. This meant that a lot of links and shared RSS items would show up at once.

I had the same problem with Flickr, each photo got its own item, so a new set would fill up the first 4 or 5 pages of the stream.

I use different tags on different services, so even though Sweetcron pulled them all into one big bag o' tags, they still weren't much use.

All of this meant that I started to worry everytime I added something to any of the sites that Sweetcron fed from. I figured that if I was going to worry that much every time I posted something then I might as well use a separate blog (or Tumblog in this case) and just post to it when I wanted to.

So there we have it. By solving my problems with blogging, Sweetcron proved that I didn't need it at all, that all I was doing is using Flickr, Delicious, Twitter and others as a sort of cross-domain tumblog. So I switched to Tumblr. It's fun, simple, quick, easy to theme, and it has an iPhone app

Update: Well, I'm never happy, since I've now left Tumblr at the altar for Posterous.