So after a very interesting morning, Mac Geekery is live.

I’m been working with a few other bloggers to get a higher-end Mac “tip site” going and this morning, much to our surprise, we launched.

Yes, I know, that doesn’t make sense. Well, you see, last night we were discussing CMSes and came to the conclusion that Drupal was the way to go. Now, after realizing this I went on and installed it and imported some stories from here as well as some others and started tweaking away. We thought we had weeks.
I imported articles via Ecto initially, then stopped when I realized it was going into the blogs area. Well, before I stopped using it for this Ecto did something very surprising, and yet, not surprising and went and posted a ping to blo.gs for us (several, actually). This, in turn, was picked up by Feedster which was, in turn, searched by Mac Surfer for the term “iPod” as a part of their daily news hunt.

Guess who popped up?

So I’m sitting there working on the site when suddenly a user registers. Then another. Then another. Then I get an emailed question about the tip. Puzzled, I look at the referrer logs and, yep, we got linked.

So, we’re up. I put up the finished stories, locked down the site a bit, not doing all we planned on, using the default template (the shame ), and so on, but we’re up.

So follow up with MG today or tomorrow when the site philosophy comes up so you know what it’s all about. It’s not going to be just another tips site but more of a collaborative tips site. Each user has an uncensored blog they can use to post tips of their own and the best get promoted to the main site. It should be quite fun.

Take a peek, look around, post a few “higher-end” tips of your own (either in your blog or as a new story). Let’s see where it takes us.

Yes, this is the end of the long tutorial-type posts on codepoetry. I will be using MG.com as my outlet for that in the future, so pick up the RSS feed and play along if you want those. CP will keep getting the tech shorts, commentary, tidbits, discussion, etc. as always, but longer articles will be on MG where I hope I won’t be the only one contributing such.