Text and Hubris

I’ve been buried in a strange variety of mishaps of this week so I am giving you a cat to appease you. New posts will be coming tomorrow. I have a lot that’s been brewing so expect a few, all fast and furious. I am also going to create a whole Diaspora section because I honestly have a lot more to say on that topic as well.

Enjoy the cat! See you all in the morning.

I spent the last few weeks playing with Posterous and trying to integrate it with my existing WordPress platform. I had my reservations about the process. Posterous is not a site that I own and I am not a fan of handing my content over. It did have a great autoposter, though, and I was looking for a simple way to publish to multiple places. The idea of using email was incredibly attractive.

To that end, I can’t fault Posterous at all. It does a great job and I do highly recommend it. It is fully customizable and easily managed. It’s flexible and easy to use but powerful enough for many power users. Unfortunately, for me, it was another step in a chain of dissimilar products. While Posterous and WordPress do work together, a lot of what I do with WordPress cannot be easily duplicated via autopost in posterous. WordPress categories were never right with the posterous auto-post and I generally found myself re-editing WordPress after they finished. It ended up being more work not less.

This means that I will be disabling my Posterous in about a month. All posts are mirrored to my primary site here and I have found a WordPress post-by-email plugin that may actually work a bit better for me. We will have to see how that goes!

I will keep you all posted.

This is not a new endeavor. In fact, I’ve been writing a blog for close to six years now. Most of that work was of a personal nature, though. The site chronicled my transition from one chapter of my life to another. It was a form of communication that was aimed at a very specific audience. Beyond that, it was my personal history of what happened in those very tumultuous years. I will treasure every post I made there no matter how silly or inane it was. As a personal site, it suited me, and I was happy to have it.

Things change. I changed. I dropped the pseudonym and I quickly found that, like many things, the concept of the personal blog no longer fits with what I am doing. In fact, it is high past time that I stand up and do something more than simply type away chronicling a personal history that is, at times, wholly meaningless to everyone else. If I actually spend time working on something, I should want an audience. I should work toward that goal. It is no longer enough to type just so that I can preach to my small circle.

It is time to aim for more!