I was reading about set based development again, in the toyota way fieldbook and in the new book Mary Poppendieck is writing. If you want to participate in the review process, join the leandevelopment yahoogroup).
So, what does set based development have to do with looking for new stuff for the blog? Well, I'm still using the old rublog software for this blog. I'm trying several other things in private, with a couple of my friends to evaluate, and I hope to start using textpattern on a new blog (in dutch) that I'm planning to have soon (toyota way principle 13 - make decisions slowly by consensus, implement rapidly) now that I have found that textpattern supports most of my needs.
One of the nice things about not converging on a single solution early, is that you can allow yourself to be pleasantly surprised by what you find (even when you were not really looking :-) ). I compose electronic music every once in a while (think techno, ambient), and would like to have a podcast for that, because my friends keep asking me "and, did you make any music recently?" and I usually forget to mail around urls. While I was looking to resolve an issue I was having with textpattern, I stumbled across loudblog, a podcasting system. It took me only about fifteen minutes to set it up, so now I have a podcast, and my friends can subscripte to it if they want to keep up with what's happening musically :-) .
If I would have been totally focused on just selecting the one perfect blogging tool, I probably wouldn't have tried out loudblog and I wouldn't have had a podcast, but postponed selecting a podcasting tool until later. If I'd see bringing up the podcast in the light of set based development - it wasn't. I tried one thing, installed it, liked it and that's good enough for now (until I get dissatisfied with it and want something new ;-) )
I'm not the only one trying out new things, as I saw Johanna Rothman introducing the AYE blog.