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An aside on blog platforms

I’m still pondering where next, technology-wise, for this blog. I’ve been watching the conversation around static versus dynamic rendering of pages that’s cropped up here and there, and I’m inclined to think I’d be happiest with static rendering of the main content, with dynamic commenting.

And that looks like Melody or Movable Type 5 with Disqus commenting to me.

I’m downloading the release candidate of Melody in another window as I type this…

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