Wednesday, July 26, 2006

another blog

As indicated in my profile, I'm an uneven blogger. I think that for me, part of the reason for this is that I've not quite worked out what I want to use the blog to do. This one started out as an accident, more or less. A friend had set up a blog and in order for me to comment on it -- or at least as far as I was able to figure out -- I needed a blog identity myself. So I set this one up and used it as a joke for myelf.

I've tried a few different things with it but I've never really gotten the hang of blogging. Much of what I'd be tempted to post here is personal, personal enough that I'm pretty sure I don't need for it to be available to the universe to read. So a blog is not exactly a journal. And writing does not come easily to me so I have tended to keep the drafts of things I am working on very private, circulating them only to people who I know and ask specifically for responses.

Anyway, I've decided to try another tack. I'll keep this blog for writing that is not part of my working-writing but not overly personal. Anyone who checks in from time to time, thanks and feel free to send encouragement or kudos or complaints (I have a special file for the last category). But I'm also starting (very soon, I hope!) a new blog where I will try to work on ideas that are related to my work. That blog, What I'm Reading, will basically be my annotations on books and articles that I am reading, as a way to work out or 'test run' some ideas. I hope that if you found your way here, you'll also look there. My first post will explain a bit about what kinds of ideas I'm interested in, so you can decide if it's worth your browser time.