I’ve been mulling over what to do with my other blog (Curtin Colloquy) for some time now. Sputty the Librarian and I were posting to it for a while there, but it seems to have fallen in a hole and neither of us has updated it in ages. It’s been an interesting experiment. I’ve been thinking about why I seem to be happy to keep writing here and why I neglect Colloquy. This blog seems more “successful” than the other one, even though I tend to navel gaze a lot here, and Colloquy was more.. serious.
I started them both at roughly the same time, but I guess I have no particular attachment to Colloquy – it’s been just a show and tell toy right from the start. Having some attachment to Ruminations is what has made me keep writing it, I guess. I’m more myself here (Procrastinator Extraordinaire, pen and book freak, part of the household with M and Baubles the Cat, language lover, struggling writer, gamer) whereas on Colloquy I was just The Librarian.
I started Colloquy because I needed a blog to show my work colleagues and I was a bit shy about showing them this one. (I still am; why is it easier to think “strangers” may read this, but the idea of people you know reading is a bit squirm-inducing? Here I’m imagining someone like the Uber Boss reading… )
I’ve also played with this blog a lot more than I did with Colloquy. The CW attached to Ruminations is the blogger who comments and engages in conversations with others, not the Colloquy CW, who doesn’t seem to have developed much of a voice. The Ruminating CW is the one who’s played with tools like del.icio.us, technorati, Flickr, wikis, bloglines, superglu, coComment, douban, Frappr, LibraryThing…
Recently I’ve been feeling the need to get myself somewhere to record all the amazing things I read online. At first I thought I might try to use Colloquy for that purpose, but I’ve just realised that the Bloglines clip blog feature is perfect for this (yes, I can be a bit obtuse at times, I admit it!) so I have started saving interesting things there for future reference. YALB! Much more efficient than leaving posts permanently tagged new.
So I don’t know what I’ll do with Colloquy. I’m tempted to retire it, but I still like the idea of being a part of a collaborative/group blog. It’s all very well to want to be a part of a group blog, but what do I want to blog about?? (Maybe I need to think of a purpose for Colloquy.) (Sputty, if you see this post, any thoughts?)
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