New Blog or Just a New Look?
After over a year of languishing on my to-do list, I have finally pulled my finger out and got my new blog off the ground and here it is!
I’ve actually had a blog for nearly five years and despite Lea and I using it quite extensively when we were on our career break, it has since sat forgotten and unloved on the Internet, with very occasional random posts from conferences, supplemented by regular automated posts of weekly twitter updates and delicious bookmarks.
I’ve flitted from social network to social network over the years but have found that there is a core set that I return to and use regularly, some on a daily basis. I realised there was a lot of content that I was generating on these and although they were available on the relevant site and aggregated through my friendfeed, I was keen to pull these altogether on my own site. This is where the idea for this site started to form.
At the same time I was doing more and more freelance work using ExpressionEngine and was really liking the flexibility it gave me, both in terms of design and functionality but also in how easy it is to extend, through existing extensions or by writing your own. These two ideas came together and eventually a new blog was born.
So why blog? Well in the last eighteen months I have been well and truly bitten by the Twitter bug and although I find it easy to micro-blog on an almost daily basis, I still found it hard to write meaningful blog posts. However recently my life has taken a change of direction. Work wise I am doing less freelance web work than previously, due both to the demands of a new job and also becoming a father for the first time. Maybe its these changes or maybe its just old age but I was suddenly finding I wanted to write more and have my say, so I finally felt that now was the right time to start blogging again.
I’ll write a more detailed article about the approach I took to creating this site and some of the features of ExpressionEngine I used but for now I thought I’d give you an insight into what I plan to blog about.
Well pretty much anything that takes my fancy to be honest. Topics that immediately spring to mind are most things Apple. I recently switched from using a PC to a Mac and have to say its been a real eye opener. I’ve also had an iphone for just over a year and will probably blog about the apps I use on a day to day basis.
I’m also hoping to post about more general topics such as the web, software development and web design. Finally I also plan to post about expressionengine and social media.
That seems more than enough to be going on with and I’m sure I’ll add to this list as I go along and the site develops.
So sit back, enjoy the ride and hopefully you’ll find some of my ramblings and pontifications of interest. Do bare with me while I ease myself into this blogging lark!
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