I really liked my last redesign, but for some reason I felt like it forced me to write “articles” instead of “posts.” Writing articles isn't really my cup of tea, and so my publishing frequency suffered horribly.

I've also never been happy with the fact that the content from my three blogs — this one, my linkblog at del.icio.us and my photoblog at Flickr — has always been presented as “three different sections of content” on all of my previous sites.

I want to use del.icio.us and Flickr, in my opinion they're the best tools available for linkblogging and photoblogging respectively.

But I also want all my content in one stream, and that's simply not been an option with today's tools.

So this weekend I rolled my own system. It's built in Ruby on Rails (would I use anything else at this point) and it basically a “metablog” manager. It doesn't let me blog, rather it integrates my three blogs into one stream of consciousness. Sort of like a “”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblelog">tumblelog," which happens to be exactly the direction I want to take this site.