By popular request, the friday five
1. How long have you had a weblog?
5.20.2000 — at least in theory. (Some part of me seems to think that I started in February, deleted everything, then took the first part of May and glommed it into the 20th to tighten up that first month.
Here’s a highlight from that ‘first day’:
On Serial Experiments: Lain: hey, teenage Anime girls sitting in front of computer screens in their underwear while they participate in Chats… isn’t that what we’ve always dreamed was really happening?
2. What was your first post about?
26 days til we move to the new house. New office for the computers, so my blogging doesn’t wake up Jackie…
Technically, not my absolutely first post, as I’ve explained, but it was part of the first officially day, and definately hinted at the tone of posts since then.
3. How many changes (name, location, etc.) of your weblog have there been, if more than one?
None. It’s been bears-cave since the first day, although the logo has changed once (from one bear to another, natch). I’ve tried a few different looks, but they never stuck more than a day.
4. What CMS (content management system) do you use? Do you like it or do you want to try something else?
MT, baby, and I’ll switch when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead fingers. Love it.
5. Do you read people who have both a journal and a weblog? Or do you prefer to read people who have all of their writing in one central place?
I’ve ranted about this before, but I’ll repeat (more calmly): I don’t see much of a difference between weblogs and journals. Certainly, Instapundit isn’t a private journal at all, but the author’s views are there, and mine might have more personal topics going on in each post than say… ***Dave’s (by a bare margin, if at all), or less than Baz (by a wide margin) but it isn’t as though you can say mine is more or less personal. Dave, for instance, illustrates every post with his personal take on the subject… in some ways, you’ll get to know him better than you will me (depending on the topic).
So what’s a journal? Posts where you talk about nothing but what happens to you and how it affects you? 9/11 was ‘news’, so do you post links to news on your weblog, then thoughts about 9/11 on your journal?
Seems pretty inefficient and foolish to me. “Journal” just sounds like an MT category to me. (In my case, that category is called “Falling Down“.)
Bonus 6: What’s up this weekend?
Going to bed early tonight, although I think Jackie’s helping Rey and Juli with moving a load of stuff down to their new house. Saturday is the blogathon, through til Sunday morning, and Sunday I think I just might be taking a nap.
