Improving Embloggenations
In writing on this blog, I’ve let style, essentialization, etc. take a back-seat to just getting my thoughts out there. I’m realizing that as easy as that approach seems compared to my normal writing style, it’s much worse overall because my posts are longer than they need to be and filled with irrelevancies (not to mention unnecessary parentheticals!). My points would be much better made if I took the time to plan before I start and edit after I write, and perhaps more of you will actually make it through the whole thing. There’s also a chance it will help my thinking on these issues. Or, all of the above in essentialized form:
My blog writing sucks. I’m fixing it.
A New Start
This post marks some important beginnings: The beginning of a new blog, of a new domain, of a new server, and a new online identity for me. I will be slowly moving as much of my online presence to this domain over the next few months, and I thought the blog would make as good a start as any. This will serve a few purposes:
1. To link my online identity as much as possible to my offline identity. No pseudonyms, no abbreviations, just Shea.
2. To give me more control over my use of online services. I will control my mail servers, my RSS reader, my blog engine, etc. to a much finer extent than I could have in the past.
3. To provide a sandbox for me to try out different computer projects.
4. To force me to break out of old patterns in a way that hopefully gives me a fresh start from a fairly stagnant recent past (more on this later).
So, welcome to the blog, and look for more content here soon!