Trying to get up and running

In spite of that "difficult intellectual bowel movement" well done for taking the initiative!! I don't know what the value add of these blog thingys is yet but I do know that I'll have to plagiarise that sentiment somewhere along the line in the future...

errola, on Mar 10 2005, 03:37 AM, said:

The value, from my perspective, is being able to ramble, rant, huff and puff freely, outside the forum structure, more in prose than in the short question-answer format of the board.

Blogs are longer-lived, more personal and better suited for essays, comments and larger ideas. And as a result, I will trim my forums soon to limit the number of categories (especially those in modest use or sometimes entirely ignored). It should make the board more focused, more valuable, and still give members a place to post their more considered thoughts.

It's also a storehouse where I can start placing some essays I've been working on for a while, before I build them into new pages. Perhaps get some responses and comments on them before I finally craft them into my web site.

In reality, this blog setup isn't really all that different from the forum's structure and layout. The main difference is that only members can post or comment, not guests.