Part Two
Posted at 3:27 pm on Monday, February 2, 2009, in Uncategorized, and tagged economics, linkedin, obama, social security, wall street.
Consider this part two of my blogger manifesto.
I have too many blogs. This blog is my pride-and-joy, and honestly, I could not imagine life without it, however sad that makes me feel that this is what the world has come to. In fact, I’m just glad building web-sites is cool now. Why wasn’t this the case back in college? My personal life would have been that much more exciting.
I know what you are wondering, and it is not true. I admit that I am now going to agree more than not with the administration, and that doesn’t make for good reading. And in any case, you’ll always have the Huffington Post. I think it is time to practice my long-form writing, and not just talk about it. It is time to put pen-to-paper, or whatever the saying is now, and see what happens. I also think that I want to explore a more personal approach to blogging. Some readers may have seen a subtle shift in this direction since late fall 2008. Alright, maybe it was not so subtle.
There is no doubt that I will disagree with the Obama administration and the Dem-controlled House and Senate on plenty of occasions. And I do plan on writing politics if only to hone the points that I try to make in conversation in the real world. First of all, I do not think Social Security is a solid program. I’d rather see it destroyed than saved. I also think we should tax Wall Street bonuses one hundred percent for the next few decades. And I think renditions are necessary, although they should be rare. I need to refine these arguments, and in the parlance of the greatest president’s first term, I hopefully will be able to do just that.
But I’d also like to explore my creativity, if that is, in fact, what you call whatever it is you call this stuff I think is creative. It is mostly shit, but nonetheless.
I do think a Prefident Bush cartoon farewell is warranted.
And I’d like to get more personal, if only to hone-in and capitalize on the absurdity of the tales I weave. I’d like to close loops and cross-references. I’d like to stage an ending to the perpetual work in progress.
This blog is the highest earning blog I run and it doesn’t earn a lot. It does allow me to pay for my other projects. I run a family blog with my wife where we write about the photographs and videos we make of our dog. That blog is private to friends and family with passwords. I run a local blog that is my most successful project (as measured by having some sort of lasting effect). I started a blog for another project just for the sake of tracking my progress on the project. And that is where the fun begins. Five other blogs are either superfluous and inactive, or are long-term growth projects that I spend a day here-and-there on every month or so, where rapid growth is not important. One of them is a repository for longer-form content. I’m going to try doing that here first.
I’m considering starting another project.
The blog is a nifty tool. It is not just a means to publish content in a reverse-order fashion. It is a web-site creator and a high-tech memory box, complete with a search function.
I am going private with much of what I do; as my profile expands locally, it is that much more important to control what you can online. Almost all of my past (and present) projects are exempted from the Web Archive. It pained me to do that, but I do feel it was necessary. That being said, I’d like to examine how far I can take the personal side of blogging without offending my personal responsibility, and to do so without regret.
This is not an example of my longer-form writing, or at least I hope it is not. This is merely a rambling as I assess the path forward, the path behind, and the options on either side.
I asked my former boss to join my network on LinkedIn yesterday. This is the email I sent: “Hey Bob. I’m looking to paint my house. I have two ladders, three brushes, and a keg of beer.” He accepted.
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