As I sit in my office on this Thursday, I find myself thinking about my presence on the internet, and how I am going to return to a suitable web presence. It's been dormant for a few months now, at least, nearly a year. That's unfortunate, because I have actually gotten more reactions and more content engagement from the Indieweb community than I ever have from SEO-enhanced Google results. Not that I care less about being found on Google, but I'm more interested in having my presence curated in directories ran by fellow humans, than being discovered by algorithms that might or might not be biased. I ... hate algorithms.
CMS Debate
With newer developments constantly occurring in the Indieweb, there are new innovations every day when it comes to the topic of which content management system (if any) to use. I prefer them to hand-coding things. In light of the fact I want my personal presence to be fun. I have seen the frustration that goes along oftentimes with hand-coding a site, and the moment it ceases to be fun, is the moment I'm through.
IndieWeb Favours called In
Kristof de Jaeger, is currently the only developer of the IndieWeb drupal module, and as far as I can find on the internet, his site, which is pretty fantastic, by the way, is the only one using it at all in the wild. He's been working on some interesting stuff, and would like others to test. I have to decide ... and that depends on whether I care about manual import to here (until A Drupal module is developed for Hive), or whether I want it to be more automatic.
Solutions For Now
I think I am going to go with Drupal initially, both because it's something different from the normal grind of Wordpress, plus, I'm sick of being part of the statistic that seems to be showing up everywhere regarding Wordpress running thirty percent of the internet, so, need some experimentation. Plus ... Drupal on Windows, too. Which should be more than interesting.