Well, now that I know my blog has been bloglined/blogrolled/blogmarked etc, by at least one person (yay!) , I thought I'd take the opportunity to give some info on Cogent Diversion - what this blog is and isn't, what's in the blog now, and what's coming soon.
And I'd like to say this before I lose people in the sea of this post: I welcome feedback - I love it! Comments, suggestions, questions. While I do enjoy writing for the sake of writing, it is nice to know that someone is out there reading it. On that note - I am extremely grateful for all of the traffic I have received from BlogExplosion (and from people searching for singing condoms and Paris Hilton's address book) - what brings me greater satisfaction is having regular readers - one, 10, 100, whatever. Just people that are interested in what I've written and who are interactive. I like that. So, if you like what you see in this blog, I encourage you to mark it in some way. Ok, enough of that. On with the long post.....
This blog is:
- A place for me to (hopefully) intelligently express my opinion/insights/thoughts on various things (see "Categories")
- An opportunity for me to share the writings/musings/thoughts of others that I appreciate with people that read this blog (the Circle of Life) my friends
- A way for me to keep on writing. I sometimes face writer's block. Hmmm, well most of the time I do, actually. It's easier for me to write "true" stuff than the fiction that I so desperately wish I could write more of. I'm pretty blocked in the poem area too, but I think that simply by writing in general I slowly "unblock" myself (this is starting to sound strangely like a bowel movement...)
- Other stuff that I can't quite articulate at the moment (sorry - brain fart!)
This blog is not:
- A journal/diary. I have one of those already. I've had it for almost 5 years and it has stuff of a more personal nature, also more of my day-to-day life stuff. For example, unless its something special (say the Gavin concert or my first time at a club) you really won't see posts like "well, today I went to class and work and then this kid something funny and then I ate macaroni..." (not that my LJ is exactly written like that, but Im just illustrating that this won't be about what I do all day). Feel free to check out the LiveJournal though - it can be added to Bloglines - not sure about other blogrolling software.
I am not detached from my content - you will learn about me through this blog, just not about my every emotion etc etc.
What's in the blog:
On the left (for now) we have
- Books I'm currently reading (if they have no rating that means I'm less than halfway through it)
- Albums that I listen to repeatedly (it has been static for the past two months or so, but typically changes more often)
- A link to my almost-five-year-old LiveJournal
- My Amazon Wishlist (feel free to buy me a gift at any time!)
- The blogs I read (not including those that are blogmarked on BlogExplosion that have yet to be moved over to BlogLines)
- Non-blog sites that I enjoy (soon to be updated)
- Random stuff I'm playing around with that I don't know where to put
- Random photos from my flickr account. (great site by the way!)
On the right we have
- Recent posts
- Recent comments
- a Doodle-Board. I'm playing around with this. If people don't leave messages, or leave "I hate Mr. Rogers - he sucks!" messages, I'll most likely remove this.
- Categories that the posts fall into (pretty self-explanatory - you can check it out and see what kinds of things I've already written about)
- Archives
- Links to give me stuff (:) ) or subscribe to my blog through Bloglines
- Ads (eh, these will probably be removed. perhaps replaced by ads that more closely relate to my blog's content. Perhaps replaced by nothing at all)
- Two counters ( don't ask)
Special things:
What's coming soon (this is all up in the air, but I hope it comes into being):
- My personal "50 Book Challenge" - I sincerely doubt that I will have 50 books read by the end of the year - in my mind that means (just looking at things simply of course) 25 books in six months. I can't predict summer through December but January - June is not looking like lots of complete book reading. But I'd like to write about the books I do complete - I think books are great. I'm so addicted. I have so many that I can't keep them in my crowded college apartment (have to be considerate of the other people who live here, ya know).
- stuff I've written - short stories, poems, whatev. Still thinking about this one.
- A section on the sidebar with links to pertinent posts - my bio, this post, "110 Things About Me," why I have Mister Rogers quotes, what the "Most Excellent Blogs" is about, etc.
Yeah, I know, long winded post, but I felt the need to get that all out of the way.
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