This post orig­i­nally appeared on the now-defunct ‘Zom­biecoder Kay’ blog.

This blog, I mean :)

The his­tory of Zom­biecoder is thus: I started blog­ging on my orig­i­nal per­sonal web site, http://kay.smoljak.com/. After the MXDU con­fer­ence in 2003, I got added to the Ful­lasa­goog aggre­ga­tor in the Cold­Fu­sion cat­e­gory, and even­tu­ally to Macromedia/Adobe’s MXNA.

The great thing about aggre­ga­tors is that they bring you a lot of traf­fic that you wouldn’t oth­er­wise get. The prob­lem with aggre­ga­tors is that really, you need to stay on topic as much as pos­si­ble because the peo­ple sub­scrib­ing to that aggre­gated feed don’t want just any old rub­bish. It’s entirely dif­fer­ent from hav­ing your own indi­vid­ual subscribers.

I was get­ting pretty involved in the Web Stan­dards Group and AWIA and our local Perth Port80 chap­ter and it seemed that web stan­dards, CSS, acces­si­bil­ity and other such top­ics didn’t fit in so well with the code-focus of a Cold­Fu­sion blog — so zom­biecoder was born.

How­ever, things have changed. While I’m still involved with the var­i­ous activ­i­ties of AWIA and Port80, I just don’t have enough time to devote to the WSG. And since 2003, the gen­eral CF com­mu­nity has become more and more inter­ested in the wider web — to the point where web stan­dards and acces­si­bil­ity are not con­sid­ered off-topic any­more.

Another shift that has occurred is more to do with the web stan­dards com­mu­nity: there just seems to be less web stan­dards blog­ging going on in gen­eral. Some peo­ple have dif­fer­ent thoughts as to why that’s occurred — me, I think that we’re get­ting to sat­u­ra­tion point. The peo­ple who are lis­ten­ing already get it. Spec­i­fi­ca­tions move slowly — there’s been noth­ing new in HTML or CSS for a long time. There’s just noth­ing much to write about.

So… here’s what I’m think­ing. I’m think­ing I will import the posts from this blog into kay.smoljak.com. I will set up redi­rects so no links get bro­ken. Essen­tially, merge the two blogs into one: a meta-blog, if you will, but rather than call­ing it a web stan­dards blog or a Cold­Fu­sion blog I’ll call it my web devel­op­ment blog and post about top­ics related to all facets of web devel­op­ment as I see fit.

So… thoughts? Does any­one agree, or dis­agree? Think it’s a good or bad idea? Like it, hate it, don’t give a toss either way? Let me know in the com­ments if I’m doing the right thing — cos I think I am, but I’m not sure.