Sunday, November 26, 2006

Ok, so it's official:
I have evidently lost all interest in blogging. Not in having a blog--that part I like--but actually using it seems to be turning into a bit of a problem area for me.

We all know I toyed with the idea of an offsite blog, but I never got around to doing it. For the longest time, I didn't consider why, but when I finally thought about it I realized, "Why do I even want an offsite blog? If that's all I'm going to be using the webspace for, then what's it got (besides a very personally-designed layout) that I can't get at myO?" So I dropped the idea. It wasn't until recently that I realized that I didn't want to stay at myO just for lack of good reason to leave, but the whole "community" thing that came with it that you don't get with independent blogging software and your own webspace. That even if there's not many more people that I'm interested in meeting on myO, there's still other people around. It's like you and a group of friends walking down the sidewalk of an empty road or a busy market street. It just makes a difference somehow.

And that kept me tethered to myO despite all its glaring inadequacies as a blogging service. So when Alan got ahold of Vox during its beta and invited everyone and their dog to it, a seed of interest crept up in me. Nothing big at the time, but at least an awareness. And as the number of OB peoples on Vox started growing, so did my interest in actually using my account for something more than commenting.

And really, the only reason I have for not going over to Vox is the load of nostalgia attached to this account, where I had my blogging beginnings and met so many awesome people, and all of that history is stored within a neat little archive here. It kinda helps me understand Alan's long, weary, eventually unsuccessful plight to transfer all his myO archives over to d-s. But it's not like I'll be deleting my myO account anyway (there are still comments to be made to the few people on my friends' list who still post), so none of that will actually go away.

So by now, it looks like I'll probably dump myO soon and move on over to Vox. I'm hoping that, one, it'll further help the migration of people away from myO like they damn well should, and two, give me something of a renewed interest in blogging. Because as much as I'm just not inspired to write blogs anymore, I do miss being inspired to.

In conclusion, then, vox.com. Get yourself a damn account if you don't already have one, and I'll post again when I've got it done and ready to update with the huge backlog of news I owe you all. :P
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