Onyah leaps into the year 2004	March 10, 2008

For a while now I’ve been contemplating creating a list of books I've read (since April 2007, when I became a reader) for my blog. Just a very basic list of what I’ve read and who wrote it, so that those who read my blog can know what I’m reading, but also so that I can remind myself—it’s sad how quickly I can forget an author’s name.

I was going to build this list myself and keep it on my website, but today on Amazon I discovered this thing called “My Collection” that allows you to list and share all the things you own. It seems to allow exactly the functionality I want—I add a book title, share it with folks, give it a star-rating, and you all can then click the link to find out more. Check out my list.

This is just one example of how the Internet is way smarter than me. This past week I was at a conference that was all about Web 2.0. It’s funny to me that, while there are infinitely many new ways that the Internets allow you to quickly and easily communicate with folks, my blog lives in the stone age. This is the reason that I don’t update it more often. For me, it’s not just a matter of coming up with something to say and typing it in—I have to be at a machine that hosts my local web files, I have to hard-code my thoughts in as HTML, and upload via FTP. Can you get any more old-school than that? It’s sad, really.

So I’m going to take a little voyage into the world of WordPress, and other such services, to find out how I can update it more easily and create an RSS Feed—and this is the key—without changing its appearance one iota. It’ll be a fun (likely harrowing) project that’ll result in a better blogging experience for everyone.