(Mo') Time to move on

Friday, 09 January 2009

As some of you know, I have been the guardian angel of this site since its launch in 2003. For a variety of practical and logistical reasons, Mo'time remained a sort of side project for the small team that created it -- you see we also ran the Italian version of the platform, it quickly became a huge success and it was all we could do to keep up with the technical and service issues.

Nonetheless Mo'time is our cherished child and we made a commitment to keep it going no matter what!

Continuing the recap, we sold the whole kit and kaboodle in 2006 and I stayed on as a volunteer webmaster of Mo'time and took on other jobs. During this time Mo'time remained in a sort of time capsule until the latest update of the platform. Now it has been shifted to another business unit, Blogo.it, and will finally be given a new lease on life.

It is time for this cowboy, however, to move on. I am hereby handing over the keys to Blogo.it and to new webmistress, lucyblade. I will leave it to her to introduce herself. Be patient, as it will certainly take her some time to get up to speed. Please address all your Mo'mails for help and bug reports to her. She will be monitoring the help blog and, above all, The Motimes blog that has become our defacto forum for all things Motimish.

It has been an honor (honour, for those who may feel slighted by the other spelling) being a sort of shepherd here. And I thank *you all* for the incredible bonds that have been created and maintained on these pages. I will not be going anywhere in terms of Pongomania and a member of this community. I'll still be around, just no longer as the fix-it guy and as a constant presence.

Love and kisses,

-H

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#1 09 January 2009 - 12:47

We will miss you, howard.

stefko

#2 09 January 2009 - 12:50

sigh sigh..
Bye bye "old-great-webmaster" ;o)

Welcome "little webmistress", we all hope u will be great as the old one ;o)

antogg2004

#3 09 January 2009 - 13:30

Wait, how can we miss you if you wont go away? At least thats what roomie always tells me. Bittersweet, hard to say goodbye to our original fearless leader but happy to welcome Lucyblade.

rustymadgal

#4 09 January 2009 - 15:47

Your roomie got the title from an old Dan Hicks song, one of my all time faves!

howard

#5 09 January 2009 - 19:07

Thank goodness for Rusty's assessment of the situation. I must say, Howard, it does seem odd to not have you as Webmaster. I remember when Mo'time as in its first year and you would personally welcome bloggers. Your first comment to me was on a story I wrote on my old blog. And look - we became friends. Congratulations on making Mo'time such as success that someone wanted to buy it.

Pero, spero di vederti spesso qui, perche non sarebbe lo stesso, giuro. TVB!

RomaCittaEterna

#6 09 January 2009 - 22:07

thanks for everything over all these years! glad you'll still be around, though.

limine

#7 10 January 2009 - 09:43

Mo' clay in your life, and no mo' posting problems. I can't say I disagree with your reasoning. Thank you, sir, you're one of a kind, and you have managed to give Mo'Time a human side that simply doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet. I'm glad to hear you're not actually leaving our world. Let's just see if this whippersnapper Lucyblade can carry your baggage. Best of luck to both of you.

coopergreen

#8 10 January 2009 - 10:20

Dear Howard
Thanks for shepherding us so well. I know that we have areas of painful disagreement but you never let emotion affect your professionalism and in the fragile web of internet contact you have helped us weave, having such a spirit at the helm has been reassuring. Thems big shoes for Lucyblade to step into....
May we look forward to an outburst of creative clay-working?
Thanks
Frewin

Frewin

#9 10 January 2009 - 12:17

it's all been said already - as long as you keep pongo-ing, i'm happy. i'd be more distressed if this message was more along the lines of "to hell with you all and your infernal bloginess! i'm leaving!"

anyway, good luck with new endeavors and lets see more pongo people!

one

#10 12 January 2009 - 12:12

awwww H... :(.
I'll miss you on the tech side of things. I'm not sure I can handle all these changes!

Ladyinthemoon

#11 13 January 2009 - 12:44

Howard, you are a large part of what makes Motime, well, Motime, so you can't leave us, you see, since your presence is everywhere and constant, whether you're "here" or not. Many thanks for ALL the help you've given me over the years.

InMyLife

#12 14 January 2009 - 08:31

What bittersweet news I returned to! Howard, as it's been said many times, thank you for all that you've done for Mo'time and for us personally as bloggers. This community wouldn't have thrived without you. I do hope this means you get more time to do pongo? :)

merserene

#13 14 January 2009 - 13:06

sniff, sniff, hug, hug, kiss, kiss!

I hope to do more Pongo, but I will predict that the output will be roughly the same -- since I do have to, um, work...

howard

#14 14 January 2009 - 17:12

You've left some big shoe to fill!

I'm not around Mo'Time much anymore, but I still keep tabs on the place that gave me a start in blogging--just started a new one. . . http://agrari.us --Good luck to Mo'time and to you, Howard. Stay in touch.

ChefNeal

#15 20 January 2009 - 01:53

Howard,

It was awesome to have you as the fix-it man of mo'time!!!!! I will miss seeing you online all the time. I will look forward to seeing more of your Pongo art.

Take care Howard! You made mo'time a GREAT place!!!! Thanks for everything!!!!

mgrhetos2

#16 22 January 2009 - 01:30

Bye Howard!

Thanks for doing such a great job for so long.

-Jheka

Jean_and_Eugene

#17 28 January 2009 - 17:37

Hey Howard. News travels a little more slowly across the vast and untamed internet, and I only just heard. Thank you for all the kindness and help over the years, my friend. Sorry to see you go, but glad you're not actually going very far, and hope to see you again around here at irregular and unpredictable intervals, as usual.

mictlantecuhtli

#18 28 January 2009 - 21:28

just thought I'd pop in to say thanks for the thanks. weird how writing words in a little white electronic box can touch me so deeply. but there you have it. i'm gonna keep the pongo blog going, so don't forget to visit!

howard

#19 31 January 2009 - 21:03

Sob! You will be sorely missed. Take care, luv.
Diana

mafidl

#20 15 February 2009 - 22:12

Thank you so much for the amazing service to everyone writing here. It's deeply appreciated.

FreelyReleased

#21 22 March 2009 - 01:33

dude thanks for the space though my main gig does seem to suck away my time and the breadcrumbs left here do seem to be further apart but i still dig coming back

JoeSchmuck

#22 21 June 2009 - 11:10

Hi, Howard!
I just found out that you're not our "dear and very reliable" webmaster any longer. I'll miss you very much.
I just want to "thank you" for all the great and always very timely support you gave me and my educational blogs along the years.
I'm glad you aren't leaving, though.
Welcome, Lucy! :-)
Hugs, Teresa (in the Lisbon area, Portugal)