This site has been recreated with WordPress, leaving the Tumblr version behind just 5 months after moving from Posterous.

Recently Tumblr took on another $85 million in funding, which lead me to wonder exactly how they will monetize the service around user data, adding to my growing trepidation about using “free” media services. I decided not to wait and moved out. This site already feels more comfortable with the current standard theme, Twenty Eleven. The team at WordPress.com created an impressive adaptive and responsive design, which I am slowly personalizing.

I intend to use Facebook and eventually Google+ as platforms for conversation, retaining the original post here. As should be clear by now to anyone paying attention, these services are selling our attention and our aggregate data to advertisers. We are not their customers. In return, they offer an unprecedented level of connection to others online due to wide adoption. At least one, if not all of these services will eventually fade into obscurity or/and use our data in unacceptable ways (if that’s not already happening). This change gives me the option to disengage whenever it becomes necessary.