It's June 1st and this marks the 4th year of TechnoKimchi. While I haven't been the most consistent blogger in the world, I have learned a great deal from running this blog and have been able to meet a great deal of great people through TechnoKimchi. What a blessing! (Especially events like Geeks On A Plane and Startup Weekend Seoul, which I'll cover later here)
Anyhow, back to the point. TechnoKimchi runs on a Korean-native blogging service named Tistory (a service by Daum), which is based on Textcube, formerly known as Tattertools, a Korean native blogging platform; my goal, initially, was to use the best of the tool and let the world know about the superiority of Korean blogging technology :)
Unfortunately, two things happened: first, Tistory has evolved into a completely Korean (-optimized) service, meaning Tistory isn't the best, or the best customized, tool for a blog like TechnoKimchi, which needs to get lots of exposure to the "English" blogosphere, including SEO, Twitter plugins and etc.
Second, I've been quietly waiting to migrate to the Textcube.com service when it goes global full-throttle. Textcube.com to Textcube (the tool) is what Wordpress.com is to the Wordpress tool. The service was acquired by Google about 2 years ago as a bright shining star to improve Google's presence in the Asian blog market. Unfortunately, a couple of weeks ago, the service officially stopped accepting new account registration and now is a part of Google's Blogger service. (More on this on KoreaCrunch) For acknowledgement, mad props and kudos to my friend Chang, who has been fantastic working on Textcube.com and now is a product manager of Blogger.com at Google and who I'm sure will be continuing his tremendous work!
Again, in summary, I want out of Tistory and move into a good English blogging platform. I've been running my Korean blog on Wordpress for about 7 years now and am pretty familiar with the tool, esp. as I upgraded it to v. 2.9.2 just few days ago. But then I'm thinking, should I try Blogger and get the taste of it?
I'll be playing with and testing various blogging platforms for next few days (if not weeks) An advanced apology for the blog looking weird, ugly, funky, or whatever, or even occasionally going down during that timespan.
Pali pali is the governing culture in Korea. A friend of mine told me that it's probably good for me to stay in that mold this time. I'll give my best shot.
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