I was asked what I hope to do with this blog. I really didn't have a burning ambition about a particular topic when I decided to put this up. Largely I just wanted to have a website that I could update easily and use to share my thoughts. I'm not vain enough to think that I am likely to develop a following who are eager to hear what I have to say. I'm just hoping that some friends will find it interesting to hear what's on my mind. Who knows? I might even make some new friends when people stumble across my site in their perusal of the web.
I originally thought of four basic areas which I thought I would be likely to discuss: computing, Faith and Religion, Community, and Media.
First, Computing would include Internet, blogging, programming, hardware (not much of that), etc. This is likely to be done within the context of my primary page as I work on different things.
Second, Faith and Religion which would touch on my life at church, my faith journey (still very much in development and has been for many years), theological thoughts, etc.
Third is community. This would concern my family and friends, work, extended acquaintences through the internet, etc. It might even get into politics as our world continues to shrink and our ability to connect anywhere increases.
Finally an area I am calling media. This includes books (I have been a fan of Fantasy novels, especially long continuing series, for a long time), maybe comics and comic books (I read a lot of strips online plus what is in my local paper, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and I used to collect comics extensively, I still have more than 20,000 in my basement), television and movies (I don't follow as many shows and movies as many people, but I see a few), and music where my primary musical interest is in folk music.
As I moved more and more of my miniscule web site into my blog, I decided that I would also set up an area for the Sokoban clone I developed, JokoSoko, and its younger sibling, HexoSoko. So I added a Games page. This is probably going to be mostly Sokoban related, but I might have other game related things as well.
Posted by JoKeR at September 23, 2002 07:48 AM | TrackBackSounds pretty straight-forward -- about like what I have in mind, as I'm considering starting up a blog site.
How much time are you finding it's taking, to maintain this blog?
You probably saw my post on the BLOGGING THEOLOGICALLY meeting, that I intended to start a blog about three weeks ago. Then my time got tighter :-(
Best wishes,
Earl Arnold
East Syracuse, New York
I've been spending most of my evening hours as well as a good bit of time on the weekend. Of course, I expect that to slow down as I get things set up.
One thing I've found is that by setting up different pages as I have done it takes longer to maintain. When I make a change such as moving to .php instead of .html files I have 5 times as many things to change to keep the site up to date. It would be easier if there was only one page with all postings there.
I'm still trying to figure out what draws in readers. Does addressing multiple topics draw in multiple people or does it drive away people who want to stay focused in one area? Also, some of the pages get neglected. My games area, for instance, is not likely to get many new posts.
Posted by: JoKeR on September 24, 2002 08:03 AM