Ok, it seems like my "blogless life" is over..

This is my first blog post ever, so i am supposed to enter this new world with some kind of expectation or theory, no?
Well, i’ve always been fascinated by personal logs, from the old times of the .plan files in unix you could read with the finger command (my favourite was ID’s software lead programmer, John Carmack, writing on the Quake internals…).
So blogs have their fascination..
Anyway
they also have drawbacks, and one of the first observation is that they
somewhat promote a "digital divide" between the bloggers and the
blogless….

I’d like to provide the homeless a home, maybe a
temporary one, and design a blog that is not just for me.. but for some
blogless friend also. For this reason i decided not to use one of the
stable, full-featured, blog applications out there, but to assemble
mine… and its name will be MightyBlog )

Eh eh.. yes, i must admit that reiventing-the-wheel is one of my favourite sports, but i also have some goals related to this choice.
First of all i’m bringing on the developing of Portalia, a php application framework
i’ve been developing in 1 year and 1/2 and i’m using with success in
production environments. MightyBlog is just a lightweight app built on
top of it.
Then, i’d like to play with the technology (RSS, FOAF etc..) to learn about it, and i don’t learn by reading, but by coding (maybe this is a disadvantage.. maybe..).
Then i’d like to experiment some ideas
and common-sense tricks about CMS i’ve always wondered about, and i’d
like to have complete freedom of changing, implementing, throwing
away…
So, MightyBlog
will have quite an evolutionary approach and maybe will lead to some
interesting discoveries.. and maybe will be just reinventing the
wheel… but life is a challenge!
So, for now, don’t expect anything than an old .plan file on steroids
Just to finish up i’d like to thank Riccardo,
my good old blog-addicted friend, i’m learning everything i know of the
blogosphere (it’s written like that?) from him. And i also would like
to thank Lilia Efimova, the
knowledge management super-expert i’ve just met in Florence while
working for my master’s thesis project… i’ll talk about that later.
I’m here, and i’m Wet From Birth, just to put some rock’n roll..

Stefano