If I’m going to do this, then there will be no censoring, at least as far as deleting posts once they’ve been published. I see that WordPress allows me to work on a post and save it without publishing it. I do think it’s time for something new. I don’t like that I have had a blogging/journaling website that I’ve kept separate from my main website. And I don’t like that I’ve had a main website that has simply been a couple of links to other sites. What happens to my LiveJournal?
(Dave, you have a LiveJournal? Yes, I’ve had one for over three years. You needed to get acess from me in order to read most of it, but a fair amount of it has been in the public domain. There’s a good deal about me that you’d know if you read it that you don’t know).
This is starting to sound like an official first post, rather than a “testing, test, 1,2,3″ post. There’s nothing to test, I suppose. I know that this work. The question is how much time do I spend configuring this before I tell anyone about it? And back to my original question, what happens to my LiveJournal? I don’t know. Clearly, I’m not going to spill my inner-most thoughts to the whole world. I only do that for a handful of people I don’t know scattered around the world. Yes, the whole notion of keeping a blog is tricky, especially if you’re like me and kept a private journal between the ages of 13 and 28 before deciding to share with the world with the advent of blogging communities.
On the subject of communities, perhaps the main reason why I am likely ditching LiveJournal in favor of this WordPress blog on my own site is my failure to find a community in three years on LiveJournal. Why it may seem obvious to some that finding physical communities in my locale is a desirable thing, finding an online community seemed as if it wouldn’t be terribly difficult and could be fulfilling. It just hasn’t worked out for me. At this point, I am happy to report that I may be making some progress on the physical community concept. However, to delve into that subject would be to smack into a gray area–that tricky space between what’s public and what’s referred to on LiveJournal as “friends-only”.
I’m not sure where this is going.
