If, like me, you find yourself in at the deep end trying to get your head round SharePoint development then along with the other things I talked about you might want a copy of SharePoint Manager 2007/2010.

It's the scanEz of the SharePoint world and it's helping me no end in working out how things are all tied together.

Thanks to Erwin van Hunen for the tip!

The owner of Planet Lotus, Yancy Lent, asked me yesterday if he should move this site to "Planet Sharepoint" instead. At first I thought it was a joke, but it turns out he has a sister site just like the Lotus one that's only for SharePoint feeds.

Anyway, I said no, don't move it, as the SharePoint posts on here are likely to be short-lived, sporadic and intermingled with Lotus postings. And that, either way, they're of interest to the readers of the Lotus stuff as they're written by a Domino developer.

However, he seems quite insistent and hinted that he'd have to "de-list" me in the interim and asked if I thought was "fair". To which I said, no, I didn't think it was fair. Not unfair on me, but on the users who've grown to rely on his site as their one-stop source of Lotus postings.

If he de-lists me what happens then? Do the visitors I'd lose (7% of my hits) assume I've fallen off the face of the earth? Or do they then have to remember to check here directly or via RSS instead.

It all stinks a bit of control-freakery to me. Expecting to be able compartmentalise a list of blogs in to one bag is bound to be an impossible task. If he didn't have a Planet SharePoint site would his email ever have arrived I wonder?

Yancy said that was I was doing was like:

Coming to a Manchester United forum to talk about Arsenal.

But it's not though is it. Nothing is ever that black and white and his analogy just doesn't work.

What I said to Yancy is:

Do what you like though, I'm not really that bothered. I just think you're doing a dis-service to your visitors.

I also said:

I talk about what I'm doing at the time. Right now it's Sharepoint. Next month it could be something amazing with Domino. Who knows.

What I'm getting round to saying is that if you trust Planet Lotus as the definitive source of Lotus blog posts then maybe you need to be aware that what you're reading is being dictated to you.

I don't know what he's planning on doing, but wanted to make you aware of what he might do. If you're a Planet Lotus visitor and see no posts from me in the coming days or weeks then you know why. Might I suggest you use RSS or Twitter instead.

I put a quick survey here to see if you think what he's suggesting is a good idea. Let the people decide I say.