On Blogs

Blogs are becoming a bad habit for me. I think I'm still looking for a posting method which works out for me.

I started on kebrent.com on the front page when I initially redesigned the site in... 2004ish? (Ok, I lie... the site I started on is older, but not really for public consumption.) That was supposed to be about my writing, and by and large has stayed such. I added a WordPress blog to it, but keeping WordPress updated is just as much of a pain as the phpBB boards were.

So I moved to Blogger, slowly, sometime last fall, but only for World of Warcraft-related stuff. I'm sure most of the people searching for me under my real name aren't interested in the mechanics of a character class in an MMORPG. If you are, for some reason, looking for me in that context, you should be searching for my character's name.

I did try out LiveJournal at some point, but I didn't really care for it. I haven't gotten into twitter as much as I'd like to because I have limited text messaging, and I don't want to use them up. I also don't think my daily activities are interesting to the rest of the world. (Which is why Facebook's status updates feel more relevant - the people I have friended are the ones who care about a pie plate shattering in my oven.)

I worry mostly about not having archives outside the blog's servers, but I suppose I could allay that by writing things out in Notepad first and then posting them. That's the librarian in me - worrying about access and born-digital information.

So anyway, I've been feeling my way around in the methods of online public exposition, and I think I'm going to try this as a replacement for the WordPress blog.