Off-site, out of sight
So, as you all know, I have another blog. Well, I created a LiveJournal account as AndrewSW just so I could post comments as a registered user on some of my friend’s LiveJournal accounts. I’ll probably do the same for Xanga, actually.
But I realized that one of the reasons that makes my other blog feel like it is such a chore is the need to make everything coherent. This is the blog where I worry about the posts holding together into something - there, I just wanted to casually talk about other stuff. The problem is, I usually don’t want to talk about other stuff. Only sometimes. But if I only update it as often as I feel like talking about it, that’s not going to be very often, and that’s going to suck.
So I plan to create yet another blog eventually. This will be far more like the so-called digital lifestyle aggregator(s) that people seem to talk about a lot. It will be rather random, and a fair amount of multi-media. Pictures. Scribbles. One-liners. Maybe even some audioblogging. I won’t bother trying to have it make sense, because that’s a pain. That’s what this blog is for. My current other blog will likely fall into disuse, except for when I have lots of multi-media elements that I actually want to make into a coherent post - such as writing a summary of a trip I’ve been on or something. So not dis-use, but more like I’ll post maybe once every two weeks or so, the “average” for those who do blogging as “persistent InstantMessaging”.
So yeah, that’s that. But anyway, the real impetus for creating that LiveJournal account was so I could post a registered user comment on a special post - this post which is written by the first date aftermath girl. How can you read that and not go “aww”? I’m excited, and if I hadn’t declared that category “dead”, this would be cross-posted to the “Personal (Very…)” category, because yeah, it is personal and exciting and I’m happy about it and everything. I’m actually at a loss for words - I mean, it is vaguely expected, I’d think, for me to make a similarly public statement of affection towards her, I’d guess - but a lot of stuff has been going on where you, my readers, cannot see it - e-mails and IMs and phone calls and such - and I dimly resent the implication that just because any sort of statement of affection wasn’t made public that this somehow means that it wasn’t made. But whatever - she’s awesome, she’s attractive in just about every which way I can imagine, I’m so comfortable around her (despite what the “first date aftermath” dialog might suggest) in terms of what I say - we seem to have got that policy of radical honesty down-pat without even trying. And I love it.
Now, if only we could get to a second date. Just after finals, methinks.
I think your multimedia blog is an excellent idea! I see a few of my favourite bloggers getting all multimedia recently (with music-logging and so on), so I really should get with the program and do something myself. But currently I’m immersed in work and also migrating to Movable Type with RW/W. Not as much as you’re having, judging by this post!
ps I’ve read your WeAreBlog paper and it’s excellent. I hope you follow up on some of the ideas in this paper, as I don’t see many other people thinking along those lines (which is a good thing IMHO).