The geese are migrating, and so have I

As someone wiser than I once said, “It’s fall – time to roast footballs and play touch marshmallow.” Or something like that. It’s the time of the year when geese migrate. From somewhere to somewhere else..Somewhere south of where they started. I think. In the Northern hemisphere, that is. Are there even geese at all in the Southern hemisphere?

Well, what’s good for the goose is good for the … er … blogger. So I have migrated – in a big way. First of all, I have moved my domains from one of those nameless, faceless places that have no support and no local presence to a Portland-based hosting service with outstanding support, Network Redux. Second, I have migrated all of my sites from Drupal to WordPress. Drupal did way more than I needed, and required extra plugin modules to create search-engine-friendly URLs.

There are a few other changes coming in the not-to-distant future. While the blog posts will still be publicly-visible, most of the content pages will be visible to subscribers only. And for spam-prevention and other legal reasons, only subscribers will be able to post comments. Over the summer, I was deluged with spam on one of my blogs, and it was one where there was also a fair amount of legitimate and quite interesting discussion on a topic very near and dear to my heart, social media analytics.

It was a tough choice, but in the end, I was spending way too much time pushing the “spam” button. On that site, WordPress recorded 127 comments. 116 of those 127 comments were spam! That sucks. You can’t feed that to a goose. In either hemisphere!