State of My Blog Network

One of my "New Years Resolutions" is to get back to actually regularly posting to my multiple blogs. With that in mind, I figure I'll do a quick run down of what I'm currently updating and working on and maybe point out a few things that are dead. This is mostly organizational for myself because honestly, of all of my Blogs, this is the least popular.

I've moved everything, once again, off of my own hosting. This time it's all on blogger.com however instead of Wordpress.

Anyway, we have JoshMiller.net, which is here. This is mostly my "Personal Blog". Other than "Random occasional life observation", I sometimes post technology or computer related articles here.

Next up we have Lameazoid.com. I need to fix a lot of the image links and for reasons unknown "lameazoid.com" without the www is not working even though it's all set up to work, but I'll get that fixed. This is "Games and Toys and Geek/Nerd stuff". Anyone who has known me for any length of time will likely know what Lameazoid is and will know it is my "Flagship blog". It's currently in a state of "Team Fortress 2 + Other Random funny Youtube Videos".

Thirdly we have Opinion Stated As Fact or OSAF for short. I've had an increasing interest in worldy news and politics these days and this blog serves as my outlet for that. It's also a bit of an attempt to get back into my more popular "mildly inflammatory writing style" of the days of yore. So far it's pretty weak in that department, but I'm getting there. If you're a fan of Lameazoid and have an interest in news, you'll probably like OSAF.

On the subject of dead projects. Over the course of 2009 I've killed a few of my other side projects. I'm using Twitter exclusively for "Microblogging". I experimented with Plurk and a few others, but I've found I've been over reaching on the social networking so I've been cutting back with a machete.

I've also more or less killed my use of Posterous. I was experimenting with ti as a Mobile Blog platform and only updating it with photos and musings from my phone but I've had a few annoying roadblocks with that and quite honestly, it's something I could just use Flickr for. I like Flickr, I pay for Flickr, I have been severely neglecting Flickr.

Some may remember my short lived Everyman Tech blog. I've dumped that too. I don't care about being a "helpful Tech Enthusiast" enough to update it regularly. Those posts are now part of Joshmiller.net.

On another note, I've been doing a bit of "Outside Work". Outside being "Not something I directly control". I've done a few episodes of the Gitmo Nation Roundtable Podcast. I've also been posting some articles to my employer's website (Not all of these posts are mine).

Finally, I'll close with some upcomming ideas and projects and some direction fo where things will be heading in 2010. First off, Audio and video are comming. I say "First Off" like there's any other angles here....

Anyway, I have a shinny new video camera and a strong desire to do a regular Podcast I havn't quite desiced on if this will be weekly or bi weekly, and I'm not quite sure of if it's going to swing more OSAF or more Lameazoid. It will likely be a mix of these two areas of discussion. I plan to make it a solo venture but I'm not totally adverse to the idea of guests hosts.

The Podcast will be audio only. The video camera I mentioned will be for new Video Reviews for Lameazoid. Sort of... Everyone is doing crummy video reviews these days, I don't plan to do many straight out video reviews. More likely, I'll use video to augment text reviews. I prefer text reviews all around, I've just been extremely burnt out on doing them.

I also am looking into doing a few "Audio Mixes" for some audio streams that some of my fellow GNR peoples are working on. I'm not quite sure if this will pan out but it' something I'm toying with. The main issue is looking moe into how copyright works. Most likely I'll end up using Podsafe Music. for these mixes so it'll be stuff you've probably not heard before.

Anyway, that's a look at the year ahead.