Well, I semi-officially took my new blog public. Without much fanfare, I posted it as my website on Facebook and made (probably) a final Xanga entry with the web address posted.
I have enjoyed the anonymity here, but I do want to open it up to more people. Xanga was weirding me out by the number of kind-of-friends that were there and the concept of audience was stifling me. It's still a struggle here, especially as more people read it but I decided I had to make a break from Xanga... I have good memories there and I still go to check my subscriptions -- I enjoy that feature. I am still struggling to find a balance of what's-going-on-type updates vs. what's-going-on-inside-of-me posts. Anyone else with struggles of audience pleasing or advice on blog purpose?
I am trying to figure out "feeds" to keep up with my friends in all of the blog arenas. But I am pretty much only online at work (at home the last thing I want to do is sit in front of a computer - gag!) and our browsers here don't support feeds. So, I am working to get a comprehensive list under my "links" section to find my friends' updates.
btw, I heart updates! After working intently for several hours, I am thirsty for human contact! An email, a facebook (I'm making that a verb), or a blog update is a joyous occasion! Also, please comment--whether I know you in real life or not. It will make this less of soliloquy and more of a community process/conversation. Not sure-- I'm still not clear on the purpose of this guy...
Inspired by our last weekend together, Lindsay is hopefully going to create a community blog for our spiritual family to keep in touch and share what is happening inside of us, through us, and around us. Despite the distance between us, hopefully we can experience community and share and grow!
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Um, I'm a little loopy. I just had a feeling that my legs are disconnected from my body. When I got lunch, I thought I may be floating on the stairs. I think this is caused by a combo of a few medicines and my body trying to fight off a cold (my roommate has laryngitis and I'm a bit weary...) I hope this does not affect my performance at work as I handle millions of dollars today... ha! :-/
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maybe you should keep two blogs? you shouldnt need to please the crowd. if they want to know about you, they'll call, hang out, have lunch, and put that little extra effort into it to let you know they care to hear about whats new in your world.
thats just my humble opinion.
hey natalie, thanks for your comments! the newspaper is always looking for interns, so you should definitely come down! you don´t get paid, but in my experience, it´s not difficult at all to find part-time teaching work. by the way, i totally know what you mean about the disconnected legs; right now i have a disconnected head.
you KNOW that i'm cyclically going through the blogging identity crisis. so i feel you. but i think it helps that we're at blogger instead of xanga now--those audience/purpose issues that are unique to xanga really can mess with you.
i've created the community blog (i did it right away!) but that's as far as i've gotten. i'm going to make you a team member and you can dive in and do whatever you want! we'll get that thing rolling.
and two words for you about the feed-issues: google reader. do it! it will solve all your problems! they do all the work for you!
Hey Nataliemma. . . guess who else just rejoined the blogging world?
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