My blogging for the last ~6 months can be found on http://www.livejournal.com/~geekfun and, more recently http://blogs.salon.com/0001108

I am back to using blogger, at least for now. I had been using Livejournal for a while, because I liked that it integrated audience comments, but the server can be slow and I just feel out of place there.

I used Userland’s radio on Blogs.salon.com for a while. I liked it, but right now, I don’t really feel like paying $40/year for it. Plus, Salon’s blog experiment seems to be dying off after an initial surge. I wish them well, and I may go back, but not right now.

So, for now, I am back to blogger. I have decided I don’t care all that much about comments right now. At some point, I’ll probably move to something else, but not right away.

Update: This post has been migrated from blogger, to Movable Type, to WordPress, where it currently lives.

I really wish that Blogger were better about working with Mozilla. I have been pretty happy with Mozilla for everything and I am not eager to go back to IE. If I use it for blogging, I really have to use it for about all of my browsing because I never know what I will want to blog.

Whenever I pass an old social club building (Masonic, DAR, Odd Fellows, Etc), particularly one that has been converted to another use, I wonder what has become of the impulse to build and gather in such institutions that seemed to prevail in the first few decades of the 20th century. It isn’t clear to me how it has been met or coopted by the for-profit private sector (if it has been at all).

What I just realized though, in contemplating on-line discussion boards and blogging communities like this one, and how they seem to be more labors of love than commercial enterprises, is that perhaps the old impulse has found a new way of expressing itself.

Its snowing!!