Blog Rollin’
As mentioned in an earlier post, I’m in the process of moving schizzes and flows to another (and hopefully last) blog host (stay tuned for a re-directing post sometime in the next month or so). As with any move where just about everything you own needs to be held and assessed individually before ever making into a box, moving van, etc., I’m finding the change-over both exhausting and exciting. Exhausting because, well, I’m moving two years of blogging elsewhere (as a bonus though, I’m quickly becoming the world’s fastest “cut and paste” man … don’t believe me, pony up for a challenge and we’ll see). Despite the frustrations and aching fingers and back, though, I’m enjoying the fine-tooth-comb attention required for such a move. (Of course, there are the inevitable cringe moments when you re-read a post long forgotten and probably best left that way.)
Today’s mission: transfer the blogroll and catch up on what I haven’t had time to read in the past few weeks. As I started shifting names and links, however, two things occurred to me: 1) I’m linking more people than I can possibly read in a week (though I’m not convinced this is necessarily a bad thing), and 2) Despite #1, I should be reading more often because there’s a lot of great writing and thinking going on out there by some really smart and engaging personalities. I’m sure I’m not alone when I confess that my blog reading follows fairly habitual patterns, where I move through a set of practiced links that are almost always the same and almost always in the same order. Again, I’m not sure there’s anything bad or shameful about this–when faced with so much information and possible points of connection, we’re bound to simplify, even if that means ignoring the richly complex in favor of the richly simplistic. Still, with so much excellent work out there in the blogosphere, I want to (and am excited to) recommit myself to these blogs and bloggers, in effect to resist the comforts of routine and the trappings of familiarity (how’s that for melodrama and hyperbole?)
“…I confess that my blog reading follows fairly habitual patterns, where I move through a set of practiced links that are almost always the same and almost always in the same order.”
From the sound of this, it seems you’re not using a blog reader/subscription service. If not, you really ought to try it. I went through blog overload myself until switching and now I read 90+ blogs with ease (I know how much this sounds like a product plug, so I won’t name any specific service - they’re all free anyway).
Comment by LeisureArts — June 10, 2006 @ 10:10 pm
So where are you headed to? I looked at Drupal, but I don’t know anything about setting up a server (php and such), and I don’t know if I want to pay for something like Typepad.
If only someone developed a program that would copy and paste your entire blog in one shot, links ,comments, and all. I’d pay for that.
Comment by Rick — June 11, 2006 @ 4:30 pm
LA–Thanks for the tip on the subscription service–When I shift things over to the new blog, I’ll definitely look into one of these…
Rick–Actually, I decided to go ahead with Typepad. Like you, the fee kept me at bay for a while, but in the end the level of control and extended options sold me.
Comment by schizzesflows — June 11, 2006 @ 6:45 pm
Nice look
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