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July 10, 2008
All my blogs
Sometime or other, I got the idea that I should keep TennesseeTicket.com focused solely on politics, elections, and news, and push the rest of the things I like to write about off to other blogs. I don't really know why; plenty of other politics, elections and news bloggers that I read regularly mix in notes about photography, music, technology, food, entertainment, or cats. (Update: almost forgot: and all the yammering about [whatever]ball.)
I'm just made this way, though. I like clean compartmentalization. So I conducted an experiment. I set up a couple of Blogger blogs, and a Wordpress.com blog (easiest in the world, I'm telling you), in addition to this one. Now I'm about to shut some of them down.
Here are all the blogs that were to have been maintained:
swog was to be all food and drink, all the time.
Dead Heads ~ Running Things was where I'd write about music, dreams, mysticism, and random things.
Joe Lance Online was for technology, entertainment, and maybe some photography.
TennesseeTicket.com is, of course, all about Tennessee elections and politics.
What I've decided to do is to collapse everything that's non-political into the Wordpress.com blog,
Joe Lance Online.
Some of my political writing that has strictly to do with Chattanooga and/or Hamilton County will end up at Chattarati.com. I'll also write about other Chatta-centric things there.
And to get really hyperlocal, I've been given the keys to the Brainerd Unity Group blog, though I have yet to take it out of the garage.
After all, I have a wife, a son, a job, and a home; an account on some untold number of social networking sites; access to five different Twitter accounts; and I play music sometimes. I can't keep up that many blogs. I'm crazy enough as it is.
About Blogs , Site News | By joe lance | 9:41 PM
Comments
I have really appreciated your thoughts and information and will miss this blog. I hope chattarati is sufficiently informative. So far it is much less helpful than your site has been. I haven't been able to find anyone else being as consistently informative as you have been. Thanks for your service. And good luck down-sizing the on-line commitments. I'm sure it is for the best.
Posted by: Lisa at July 11, 2008 7:53 AM
Smart move. I tried the same thing with my blogs numerous times. Each attempt outside of the now-defunct Girl from the South failed. Even if you're full-time blogger, it's hard to maintain more than one site.
Brian Solis (pr-squared.com) has interesting views on building and maintaining your personal brand identity through alll social media. Centralizing blogging is a smart move.
Posted by: Adrienne at July 15, 2008 12:33 PM