From My Thing to Our Thing

I’m switching from WordPress to Tumblr tonight. My wordpress blog was hacked and I’m tired of spending time fixing it every two weeks.

This would seem like a great thing, and I guess some of my friends will congratulate me about the move, but I’m not that happy about it. Yes, tumblr is great and I’m pretty sure I will blog more often because of it, but I have to give up 4 years of posts and comments in order to move. The good news is that I have backups of my old blog and I’ll be able to import it all once the functionnality is added to Tumblr.

The good news is that this move is coherent with my view of the web today. Everyone has the ability to easily publish original content of quality by using the free (and not always free) tools like twitter, flickr, tumblr, vimeo, youtube …etc. These tools are fun, free, well-built and sooooo easy to use. By using these tools, you sacrifice a bit of freedom (My Thing) but in return you get nice features, support and constant developement from hard-working teams that rock! (Our Thing)

That’s why I love the web, that’s why I want an account on every tools you guys create.

Update (2009-03-31): I went back to WordPress. But most of the things I wrote here are still true for other things than my blog. Turns out I had multiple reasons to keep my blog on wordpress.