Is late really better than never?

October 24, 2006 is when I made my last post here indicating that I would soon have a new blog running on my own site. It is now February 27, 2007, nearly four months later. The new blog is finally ready.

travisennis.com

If you only knew what has happened in those four months. Regardless, if I still have a few subscribers, do join me at my new blog. I promise it will be more active, although the topics I may discuss there could be different than what I discussed while here.

Update

An anonymous commenter asked how I was progressing on my new website. Well, I can say that I am, but slowly. It's been over a month since I said that an announcement would be made soon. A lot has happened in that month and school, which is the primary user of my time, has been extremely busy. However, progress has been made, a few decisions have been changed, and new ideas have been born - some to die and a few to flourish. I've changed a few of my assumptions that I possessed about what I wanted from my own website. Some of those changes might, when all is said an done, prove to be quite radical for me. Yet, at this time, all I can say is something should happen soon and I'll post here when it does.

Announcement coming soon.

Well, I'm moving forward on finally having my own website where I have a measure of control of how the site is layed out, what CMS I will use, and the graphic design of the whole mess. It's lot of work, but there is a certain measure of satisfaction in knowing that when I'm done I'll have a place of my own on the web. My new site has an address, but I'm not announcing it yet. There is still work to do, but soon I'll have something to show for it.

Plans are moving forward

My plans to start blogging again are moving forward, albeit very slowly. I've decided to do things differently this time around. No more of these free blogging services like Blogger or Wordpress.com. I've decided to go with my own site and blogging software on a hosted service. Now the next step is to decide where to host my site. I believe I'v narrowed the field to either Dreamhost or Media Temple. Media Temple seems to have a sexiness to it that is appealing, but Dreamhost appears to be the better deal. However, Dreamhost has had problems over the last few months that I can't be sure have worked themselves out. Some posts indicate that they have.

Once I get this stuff figured out, I'm going to publish my new address here on this blog. Until that time, look for updates and postings about the process and the new site here on this blog.

Musings on Time and Priorities

I've still to decide where I'm blogging, but I do want to start blogging again. The thing is that there is so much I need to accomplish and just not enough time. School start next week. It's my final semester for my dual-degree in Library and Information Science. I'm looking forward to the end. Once December gets, I will have been in graduate school for two and half years. It's not a long time; it certaintly went by fast, but it's still time. Outside of school, I'm currently working four jobs. It's too much and within three weeks I'll trim that down to only three. However, they keep me busy in their own right. Finally, I'm redesigning my own website so that is current, reflects me and my interests as they stand now, serves as my portfolio, and holds my current resume. Job searching is coming very fast. In fact, it's already started and having a website I can use during that process is a high priority for me.

That's just work and school. Somewhere, I'm trying to find time for blogging, especially since I still have some readers. You can't imagine how happy I was to receive comments to my last post. Thank you.

Tags: Blogging, Career, School, Time

Might I give this another shot?

After nearly eight months of hiatus in which nearly everything about me has changed, I'm considering giving this blogging habit another go. My first, somewhat successful, attempt was here at Blogger. According to Bloglines I have about thirty subscribers left who use there service and who knows how many of those actively use their accounts there. Consequently, I'm considering a switch to the hosted Wordpress service. Let me hear from you if you still are subscribed to this blog even though it has been silent for so long and once I decide where I will start blogging again, I'll post it here.

Tags: blogs, habits

The string is broken...

Last week marked the first time I missed the Library 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up. Everthing surrounding school and work has kept me so busy that I didn't even realize I hadn't put the wrap-up together until this past weekend. I quickly did a look back to see what I missed, but what I found was a continuing trend of less and less discussion of 'Library 2.0' as a term or movement. Walt Crawford mentioned that he also sees the same trend and that he believes the conversation has diversified into different areas of interest and work, something which I've also said needed to happen. The thing is it is now happening and with it I believe I'll no longer continue writing up the end of week review. I too have some specific areas of interest that I would like to explore in more detail and I'll try to do so over the next weeks and months.