Manuel Moreale follows up with some thoughts after interviewing me for his People and Blogs series:

That’s one of the main advantages of owning your place on the web: you can bend it and shape it to do exactly what you need it to do.

I love even the small tweaks we can make to our own sites. Having control over your site helps it fit your words and photos in a way that just isn’t possible when plugging content into the cookie-cutter mainstream social media platforms.