Mac Geekery

I wrote up a page that talks about what I see MG as, but there’s more to that that really didn’t come to mind in a way I felt putting on a static page. I see MG as being a hub for more advanced users of the Macintosh platform rather than just another article site. Anyone can find a random command and write about it so what makes a site unique is its community.I wrote up a page that talks about what I see MG as, but there’s more to that that really didn’t come to mind in a way I felt putting on a static page. I see MG as being a hub for more advanced users of the Macintosh platform rather than just another article site. Anyone can find a random command and write about it so what makes a site unique is its community.

Sites like Mac Fix It gain popularity via the culture in their forums (though a never-ending barrage of unverified accusations against the OS and hardware helps in the sensationalism area). Sites like Mac OS X Hints gain popularity with people sending in tip after tip (some useful, some obvious, some useless). I hope to get MG to the point where our focus is user blogs. Now, everyone and their brother has a blog of some kind somewhere, so there needs to be a catch to making it work.

Here’s the catch:

When you have an article you want to post about geekish things, just do it. Anyone can post. In fact, this site supports most major blogging clients (including Ecto) so point your blog writer at http://www.macgeekery.com/xmlrpc.php and use your login name and password (setup an account already!) and post away. Easy peasy. If you have an exceptional post or idea, a moderator will flag it for the front page.

Of course, the blog feature here is for MG content only. I don’t care about your dog or your car or what they did to your PowerBook. Now, if it works afterwards, that’s a whole other story…

You get the idea. Have fun with it.