Rekindling Tinderbox

I abandoned Tinderbox for iBlog to publish my .Mac weblog in June, because I felt it was too hard to customize. Meanwhile, I was still using TB regularly for my writing.
Then earlier this month I installed Movable Type on macasia.com, and am using TB to write, post and manage my entries, smoothly. However, because I overlap many entries between my macasia.com and .Mac weblogs, it is getting tedious to copy-paste from TB to iBlog, then reinserting hypertext links in iBlog, as TB doesn't transfer links.

The purpose of blogging is for its quick-and-easy publishing, and what I am doing defeats it. If only I could go back to using TB as a standalone weblog on .Mac.

Perhaps I could. I've been studying two blogs that are made in TB, both capture my interest immensely. surftrail and Doing Something Different (DSD) are not weblogs in the conventional sense. Instead, they are hypertextual pages linked together by topics that are logical, rather than chronologically irrelevant to their entries. Each entry is a separate page, with navigations to related pages, bypassing the need to create permalinks altogether. Think of it as revisiting the origins of the world wide web, only now we use a content management tool such as TB to manage and automate its web-of-links.

Filed Mon - November 24, 2003, 06:20 PM in

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