Yes, I think it may be time for a new personal blog. I haven’t done “personal” blogging since I finished up in Japan. All that old material is still over at JapanTEFL, and I’m going to leave it there, easily searchable by anyone planning on doing the TEFL thing.
THIS blog, however, is going to be more about day-to-day stuff. I’m currently writing, promoting, and growing several new blogs, all of which are visible in the links on the rights side of the page. A couple of them are brand new and have nothing there yet. Now that I’ve officially linked to them, that’s motivation to get them moving.
As for what I’ve been up to lately, the Daily Buddhism blog is growing more quickly than I ever hoped it would, and the Tao site is purring along nicely as well. I’m publishing a new PDF Magazine called “Weekly Buddhism” which expands upon the material from the Daily Buddhism.
Arcane Tales isn’t doing so well. I’m really getting bored with that one. It’s extremely time-consuming finding stories that work with that format. For legal reasons, the stories need to be in the public domain, which is no big deal; those are easy enough to seek out. The problem comes in the length of the stories. In order to read the stories in less than 30 minutes, they need to be around 3000 words, which is very short. Horror stories in 3000 words published before 1928 are not so easy to find. Originally, the site was going to have Horror, Sci-Fi, and Mystery, but there just AREN’T any stories in the other two categories that fit the needs of the site. The stories I do find that are short enough are generally awfully tame, and if they bore me, then the audience probably has the same reaction. I might do some more stories for that podcast, but then again, I might just let it fade.
Just yesterday, I set up the Wellness and the Vegan blogs. I know a bit about Wellness, but know little to nothing about Vegans. Since the best way to learn a subject is to write about it, I thought it would be fun to write about that as I learn the subject.
While I was setting up the files for those two new blogs, I figured, “Why not do something with my own site?” The old site pointed to my three podcasts, but that was all it did. Announcements and updates were inconvenient, and a true blog allows easier updates, if nothing else.
So here it is, my latest.
October 31st, 2008 | Tags: blogs, first post, new, set up | Category: Announcements | Leave a comment
