Captain Oblivious

Let me see. One week on Posterous: 31 posts. To get to 31 posts on this blog, counting backward? August, 2007. Yeah, roughly 18 months. So you could say that I'm mini-blogging a lot more than I maxi-blog.

So, what's the difference? Ease, mostly. It's really, really easy to quickly post a video or picture or grab part of a web page. And it's really well suited for smaller items. I never blog smaller things here anymore, and especially not the ones where I just find something entertaining and make a brief comment about it. I used to do that sometimes, but in the past two years I really haven't blogged something here unless I was going to write a lot of the content myself.

I'm going to keep both sites, but they'll have very different purposes. They already do, in fact. On this site, I'll write longer, original content. Often it will have something to do with technology, particularly Lotus technology. Not always, but often. On Posterous, I'll throw up anything that catches my eye or occurs to me during a given day. I doubt it will ever have anything to do with Lotus, because I'd be incapable of NOT editorializing - at length - which means that hypothetical post would wind up here.

If you're wondering whether or not to bother checking out my Posterous site, here's a brief list of reasons NOT to visit me there: you don't like snarky humor (though I wonder why you're here in the first place...); you can't stand (or aren't allowed to read...) profanity; you think Barack Obama is either not a US citizen or a fascist or a communist or a socialist or an America-hater; you think atheists are going to burn in Hell and feel the need to tell them so; or you don't like science fiction or comic books at all. As you might guess, there will be snarky comments on politics and religion, there will be pop culture (usually geeky), and there will not be a filter of any sort. I do have a widget listing the topics on the right, so if you are curious you can always look at the topics there.

All of which should explain why I haven't asked Yancy to add my Posterous site to Planet Lotus (and won't, in the future). It's just not relevant. It's not a Lotus-related site, it's a Rob-related site. I've explained that to a couple of people, but hopefully it makes sense to all 7 of you now.