And yet one more test, now to see if MarsEdit is hooked up with this new install for NKA.

My friend, running bud Nina, told me she was at a party this weekend and ran into a woman who already knew her because of NKA.

And while you’d think I’d be used to the power of the Internet by now…no, no, am still not.

A million and a half years ago—or THIRTEEN, to be precise—I wrote “Why Web Journals Suck,” which was about the explosion of what we then called Online Journals and we now call Blogs. Several people have asked me what happened to this essay, and I finally got my butt in gear and found it. I’ve edited it a little (very little…the bare minimum, in fact) and have posted it here.

A couple of things I learned from refinding the essay and editing it a bit before posting:

• Wow, does this current theme I’m using suck for quoting other people. I need a new theme on this site, and I need it NOW. And I need to be able to edit themes.
• The references… hahaha. If you don’t understand some of the references, I’m sorry about that. Yes, there was a time you had to design your own journal and handcode the HTML—there was no WordPress, no Movable Type, no Livejournal. Srsly. None of that. You did it yourself, or you went home. Also, you had to somehow get your own URL out there, because there was NO GOOGLE. We did have electricity and grocery stores though, so not all was lost.
• Wow, has so little changed in the intervening 13 years, despite the explosion of blogs, the commercialization of blogging, and the acceptance that blogs are just a way of life. Well, what can I say: good advice is still good advice.

I may or may not attempt to update the essay with more recent quotes. It seems pretty goshdarn perfect as it is, dangit. (And now I’m all nostalgic for the halcyon days where there were, like, 100 journals out there.)

Go. Read. Enjoy. Comment.

I have no idea where that phantom blog entry has come from. I have been thinking about writing a blog entry…but as far as I know, my MacBook does not run on thought power alone.

And if it could, I wouldn’t use that power for writing blog entries, let me assure you.

So, because I follow so many blogs via LiveJournal, I’ve decided to let people on LJ do the same if they so want: I’m going to start cross-posting NKA over there, so you can follow along in your f-list there or continue to read here. At the moment I’m allowing comments in both places: I don’t much expect that to be a problem!

I’ve moved to the new site. The new server. Everything. Feel free to let me know if you find anything completely fracked up. I’m working on it, ‘kay? And it really is hellishly faster to fix stuff with WordPress than it was with Movable Type. Yow-za.

There’s a new RSS feed too.