2007-03-24

prog: (Default)
2007-03-24 11:46 am

The Gameshelf on blip.tv... again, only moreso

I've decided that I really like blip.tv. They do a lot of things right, and seem quite interested in getting better all the time. It is basically to a video series what LiveJournal is to personal text entries. Great features they already have include automatic cross-posting to places like del.icio.us and the Internet Archive, a pretty stats page for each show, and tools to easily wrap everything you post in Creative Commons licenses. I am also quite impressed at their customer service; when I recently submitted a feature request, I got a personal response from one of their engineers, and ended up in friendly conversation about it. That's shocking.

So, I am going to permanently move The Gameshelf to that site. In fact, I already have copied everything over: check out http://thegameshelf.blip.tv/ Now I have to figure out what I'm going to do with the old page on jmac.org. I may just set up a redirect. The move means giving up creative freedom for the site's look, but what I get in exchange is the freedom to be utterly lazy about everything else. I consider this a big win.

Jmac's Arcade may soon follow, though I still do mean to play with [livejournal.com profile] chocorisu's suggestion to make a small, neat, highly thematic custom-built website for it as well.