Today ScottOnWriting.NET turned two years old. My first post was on July 2nd, 2003 titled, aptly, Welcome to my Blog! The past two years has seen 273 posts and 1,592 comments.
ScottOnWriting.NET started out with the goal to focus on issues and interests pertaining to technical writing (hence the OnWriting bit in the domain name). Since its inception, though, I've branched this blog out to cover other areas of technology, not just the act of writing it. One thing I am proud of regarding this blog is that I have kept it fairly focused (IMO). There's no posts about the movie I saw last night, my noisy neighbors, or the latest and greatest joke I heard. I've made it a goal to keep the signal to noise ratio as high as possible. (Of course this ratio gets lowered a bit with entries like this one...)
However, I do like blathering on and writing, so it should come to no surprise that I've always wanted to write about non-technical stuff on my blog and have suckled that need primarily by annoying people with frequent posts to of the private listservs I'm on; additionally I've used NBAWebLog.com as a place to write about my favorite sport and hobby, basketball. I've decided to celebrate the two year anniversary of this blog by starting another blog... well, actually two other blogs:
- ScottOnLife.com - this blog serves as a place where I can ramble on about anything - books I'm reading, movies I liked, politics, curent events, blah blah blah.
- ReadyToBurst.com - this blog focuses on the housing bubble. Yes, I realize this topic is being wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy overdone in the 'blogosphere,' but it's a topic of interest to me seeing as I live in one of the most (IMO) overpriced areas (San Diego, CA) and it's my ardent hope to see the bubble burst here so that I can afford a nice single family home in the part of town I like. Of course, this may be all pure fantasy, but it's fun/stress-relieving to read up on articles/data that suggest that we're in a housing bubble, and then post them to ReadyToBurst.com with self-reassuring comments.