I didn’t set out to start a new blog tonight. I can’t keep up a great pace of posting in the two I have. But that’s how things worked out.
It happened this way. I wanted to allow readers to post comments freely here at Rhetoricville (yes, I do have a reader, thank you very much), but I also wanted to add some protection against spam-bots. So I decided to try the service called Akismet. You can set this up with a plug-in that is part of the Wordpress 2 default installation. However, to use the service you need a Wordpress.com API.
You get the API by registering at Wordpress.com. But when you register there, you get a free blog hosted by Wordpress (as opposed to this blog, which uses the WP software, but is located on my own virtual server). Well, what was I going to do with this new blog?
I decided to make it a sort of mirror blog, but a useful mirror. My fiction/ satire blog, The Flinty Gaze, has a subset of entries that are supposedly the private journal of a guy named Mitch Gann. My new WP blog is called Mitch Gann: A Private Journal. Basically, it’s a collection of all the Mitch Gann journal entires from the other blog; I think this will make it easier for a new reader to catch up with the story. From now on, when I write a new installment of Mitch’s journal, I will post it to both places. I might just put a tease on The Flinty Gaze, with a link to the full entry on the new blog.
Now all I have to do is write.
1 response so far ↓
1 Cathy // Apr 5, 2006 at 9:13 am
LOL. In six months you’ve gone from no blogs to three blogs and I really like all three. Each has a different audience and purpose. (I guess that comment just labeled me as a fellow comp. teacher!)
Mitch Gann’s journal is a great idea! I can see it turning into a published book someday.
Keep writing!
Cathy
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