Okay, I’ve decided that I don’t want to implement all the Web 2.0 stuff in MediaWiki as a set of extensions. Too pain-in-the-assical. So, instead I decided to set up WordPress. It looks pretty okay, it seems pretty painless, and it’s time to migrate, so that I can bind into the ever-growing set of connected systems out there.

Don’t get me wrong – I still love my wiki dearly. That said, connectivity is a bigger deal on the web than it is anywhere else, and thanks to the new boom of speculation driven by such fancy buzzwords as AJAX and Web 2.0, there’s a tremendous amount of new technology and effort going into the whole thing.
For a while, I had been thinking about attaching XML-RPC behavior to MediaWiki by hooking page actions with extensions; I still think this is a profitable mechanism, and I really wish I could have wikitext markup in my blog. But, there’s a whole lot of stuff involved with supporting the bujllion different RPC implementations out there, and it’s an ever changing field with which I just don’t have the time to keep up. So, why bother? There are perfectly good open source blog CMS implementations out there, many of which are far better than I care enough to implement myself. Wheel reinvention is, of course, the devil, and whereas it may have been fun to half-implement blogs in a wiki, when it comes down to it, I just don’t have the time to do it right, thanks to the corporation I’m starting. So, maybe I need to get over the whole “I need to write everything myself” attitude and just use the existing tools. I guess the next step is to start pulling over the blog entries from my previous blog, and start putting them in here instead.

I kinda wonder whether allowing user commentary is gonna make much of a difference. We’ll find out soon enough, I suppose.