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March 12, 2005
Mitosis, telophase
At least for the nonce, I'm going to be keeping what I'd roughly characterize as "personal journal" entries on a separate blog, Upstate. We'll see how that goes, and I'll appreciate hearing what others think of my making the split. I decided to do this as a way of trying to achieve a little more focus in my blog, along the lines of what I so much admire in Collin's and Madeline's blogs. I'm not wanting to maintain two mutually exclusive blogs; just achieve a bit of focus and still be able to blather about whatever I want (logorrhea being one of my ongoing afflictions). Observations about intellectual property will clearly be on this blog; complaints about the weather on the other; and entries about popular music in some blurry place in between. I'm fine with blurring; I prefer it to overdetermination. But I do admire focus. It's my new god-term.
Posted by senioritis at March 12, 2005 10:29 PM
Comments
I did the opposite thing a year or so ago. I maintained seperate blogs (before there was blogging software) for about 5 or 6 years and then I finally decided to merge them all because it seemed like it gave folks a better idea of who I was as a person and a scholar. I thought it might be good for folks to know how anything from music, to stress, to insomnia affects who I am as a teacher and scholar. I personally like the weather and sports updates :-)
Posted by: dr. b. at March 13, 2005 02:24 AM
Hmm. Maybe I'll put 'em back together, then. What do other people think? Do you prefer your blogs focused or cacophonous?
Posted by: senioritis at March 13, 2005 06:31 AM
Cacophonous. Definitely.
Posted by: Krista Kennedy at March 13, 2005 08:39 AM
Ditto: cacophonous.
Posted by: Marcia Hansen at March 13, 2005 10:53 AM
can't keep up in the blogosphere... madeline's already moved since you posted this yesterday!
me, i'm currently keeping the keys to 5 different blogspaces i post to; 611's & 711's, a community i built in lj, my lj, & cinnaster, & that's got nothing to do with focus for me & everything to do with audience. my non-nerdy lj friends didn't want to listen to comp-talk, so i made a comp community where a group of us could do that without boring them. 611 might care what i think about bruffee, but not what it says to me about my pool game. when i'm overly pleased with myself about such things as knit hats, i tell everybody--gotta love x-posting.
the communities & group-blogs are focused (somewhat); my 2 are both cacophonous, but they're cacophonies in different keys. and doesn't that sound pretty? if i need a 6th, mayhap that's what i'll call it.
Posted by: tyratae at March 13, 2005 08:44 PM