The clearing of all other posts from the RSS feed is nothing drastic — I’ve just made some changes behind the scenes on the blog publishing side, and this is the first new post. But it’s as good as time as any to clear the deck a little bit.

I’ve been keeping a blog now for almost ten years. I’ve met too many very successful bloggers to think my blog is anything special, or that I’m any more or less happy for having the number of readers I have. But people who read it say nice things about it occasionally, and I’ve made a bunch of great friends through blogging. Lately, it’s become harder and harder to update, though, since I haven’t known what this site was for anymore. Over the years it’s shifted from a personal weblog to a home for random stunts; a place to reblog art and media stories to a place where I post about a randomly associated bunch of interests. And each time I’ve known so little about who was reading, except that there seemed to be more of them than people I know. Whether they’re regulars, random visitors from search engines, or just people clicking through from Jonah’s still popular Nike emails, I haven’t pored over the stats enough to know, since one thing I learned years ago was that paying much attention to stats only makes me self-conscious and unhappy.

The thing I wanted to do most of all was turn on commenting, and start finding out who some of you are. I haven’t had comments on this site in years. They’re back on now. And I’ll try to not make myself crazy if I see zero comments on most of the posts.

I’m also going to try to find a new voice here with the reboot. I don’t think I’ll be reblogging much. I haven’t in a while, just not enough time to do it right, though I still love the idea. All the old posts are still up somewhere. At some point, I’ll get an archive up and working, in the meantime, the old index page is still here.

I’ve started blogging over at the Next New Networks site about professional interests, so if you want to read my thoughts on things like video and online media, plus those of a number of smart people besides me, that’s a good place to start checking out. Here, I’ll probably be posting about the same things as ever, but a bit more personally than before. I hope you’ll say hi from time to time, and let me know how this thing’s doing.

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