yewknee.com

yewknee - v9?

Lately I've been pondering the next version of this site - both the design and the functionality. I've got a lot of ideas for where I want to go with the visual side of it but I've really been pondering my choice in platforms lately. In terms of keeping with the times, yewknee.com subscribes to the old model of blogging - sort of shouting out into a void and hoping that people read what you're putting out there. I browse around the web all day, bookmark items to post about in the future and hope that my 5-7 items per day is enough to satisfy the small readership that I have. Thus far, it seems to have worked.

But what if I switched the site over entirely to Tumblr? There's a huge built-in community there.. people are more apt to reblog / add their insight on a post as it provides content for their own site and it would enable me to post much more frequently - as the content is always rolling in. There are some downsides to it but I wonder if anyone would really care:

• Tumblr has no comment system - so I'd either have to roll my own or integrate Disqus. Neither is a huge challenge but with the proliferation of reblogs, Google Buzz, Twitter / Facebook, I wonder if comments are even necessary anymore.
• Call me old school but I don't like having my entire site hosted by someone else - I like that all my posts / images are stored on my server. I can either A) get over this or B) integrate with the Tumblr API so my posts are actually stored locally. Is this something I should even care about?
• It's entirely possible that the format I have here is fine and shouldn't be messed with. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, ya know?

So I guess I'm looking to you, the person reading this, to see if it matters at all or not. As long as the content is vaguely the same, does anyone care where it comes from? Does anyone actually read this site in the browser and not in an aggregated feed?