Without a doubt, Scriptogr.am is definitely the method that I would very much like to publish all of my words on the internet. The issue here is that I typically don’t like to be tied into a particular set of vendors that I don’t control. Having said that, as I come to the 9 years of running my main website, Broken Kode, I have found that I am writing less and less. Actually that’s not 100% true, I’m just publishing less and less.

Is that because my site isn’t the way I want it? Far from it. My website is EXACTLY the way I want it. Both in terms of colours, and links and content. The method might have something to do with it, in that I’m not excited by the software I’m using - but the software is a tool. The truth is that I’ve found that I want to discuss less on my website and focus more on actually creating work that I can be proud of.

However, if there is less and less resistance to the act of publishing, then maybe I would do more of it. After all, publishing and then editing as as simple as opening and file, typing away and then pressing ‘synchronise’ on a website.

There are many great things about Scriptogr.am, so I thought I’d discuss them so that I can remember why I will hopefully be moving my site over shortly.

• All of my data is with me, always.
• I can tweak and edit something on my phone, at work, in the car, on the toilet.
• Editing takes seconds, and so information is always as fresh or stale as I want it to be. This is actually the single greatest thing about publishing information in this way. The friction between writing and correcting is reduced dramatically.
• I can have the site fully linked to both Twitter and to Facebook (something my blog has not had in a while). I’m sure there are reasonable methods to do this (including IFTTT) but it’s nice to have something integrated from within the dashboard.
• I’m able to have a completely customised looking site, complete with my proper URL.
• It has a bookmarklet (terribly important for when I just want to post something quick).
• If I want I can post from the website itself (hey at least I have that option).
• I can have pages (but to be honest that doesn’t really matter), except in the context of the archive.
• Once my site is setup, I have little way of tinkering ad infinitum and can simply get to the context of writing, which is actually a very liberating thing.

The truth is there is a ton of great software out there that allows you to publish and for your voice to be heard. The problem of course is that due to the sheer number of websites out there, your voice is typically not heard as well as it used to, even though back then there was enough going on.

The question is then, do I want to move away from Dreamhost? I only need a domain registrar and that’s it really. I might then spend my cash on Dropbox instead and have that be my ‘hosting’. I use Dropbox every single day. While my website is something I use on occasion, and even then not very often.

There are things that are missing. Notably, search. However there are alternatives, I just haven’t really looked into them recently.

The other thing is formatting of a post dependant on a tag. So maybe styling ‘asides’ differently. This apparently can be done, I just need to work out how…

The software is still in Beta and I can tell that’s the case. I originally had a look around Scriptogram months ago. It’s matured nicely over that time. However there are some bugs. The bookmarklet doesn’t work as well as I would like it to. Publish doesn’t seem to work. It creates a new .md file in my Dropbox, but it doesn’t publish the actual post itself.

The transition to Scriptogr.am is going to take me some time. Thankfully I’ve got all of my posts as text files, it’s just going to take me some time to try and sort them out into this ‘new’ format. I’m in no real rush. I’ll continue to transition the site over here, one text file at a time until I’ve got everything setup the way I want it, and then it’ll just be a simple case of changing my DNS and that’s it done.