Losing my virginity, again
January 18, 2008 //
My new Head of Communications has advised (eh, no, he has told me) to create a new blog under my name and move my non-Segala related posts with me. I must admit, this is something I’ve been pondering for ages as the Segala blog has attracted a great audience, but one that is perhaps, a little diverse for it to gain real benefit.
I think Dennis Howlett will agree that this has been a good move as I’ve asked him for advice on this matter in the past. I should have plenty of real estate to include my buddy’s gapingvoid widget too.
By splitting my posts between the Segala blog and here (oh, and BIMA), I hope to make my writing a little more relevant for you. Mind you, my writing skills aren’t likely to improve, I’ll continue to use poor grammar and spell things as if I’m looking in a mirror. I’m likely to cross-post where I feel my thoughts where relevant also.
I’ll continue to post on the Segala blog about the Semantic Web, Accessibility, Mobile Web, Standards, W3C, Content Labels, Trust, Search and anything else that’s relevant to Segala. This should make what we’re launching in 2008 much more prominent.
On this blog, I intend to cover everything else that I used to cover on Segala’s blog, such as Social Media, Web 2.0, Web and Mobile Trends, Twitter, Facebook, Networking, Events, Connecting People and anything else that I have an opinion on. I might even write about some personal stuff.
Kamrul, our Wordpress and PHP guru, is currently working on an Semantic Web application for Aido, but I’m hoping to squeeze a couple of hours out of him today to get some minimum functionality added to this blog, not to mention a little branding.
I don’t expect many comments left on this post because my mother doesn’t even know about it yet. However, if for some reason you stumble across this post before it falls off the edge of the blog with the introduction of new posts, please provide some feedback on what functionality you’d like to see?
Would you like to see any of the following on the sidebar
- Most recent comments and who made them?
- A summary of posts with the highest number of comments?
- Digg?
- Photographs of the people who left comments?
- Recent Readers (MyBlogLog)?
- Tag cloud or Recent Posts?
- My last Twitter message?
- My followers twitter messages?
Please ignore any design or layout changes (breakages) as Kamrul and I make changes on the fly to get this blog off the ground. We’ll transfer all my social media and entrepreneurial type posts from Segala to here, along with the comments next week. That should be fun.
I look forward to building a wee community here and hope you can be part of it 
offbeatmammal says 
Chris says 
oliver says 
Les Hoskins says 
Here’s a virgin comment
MyBlogLog and Twitter and most recent comments wil do for me in your sidebar, Paul.
January 18th, 2008
Good move on the personal blog URL to keep it seperate.
January 19th, 2008
Welcome to your new home! Will there be even more risky stuff on here than the Segala blog? Is anyone running bets on how long you take to get this blog banned in China too? I look forward to all of it!
January 20th, 2008
I’d like to see a fuelroll. It is a visual blog roll based on blogs on a *ahem* great community.
January 21st, 2008
Thanks everyone. @Phil is it possible for me to be more risky?
I do feel slightly liberated since decoupling from the Segala blog, don’t know why though.
@kevind - not sure about blog rolls as you always end up with a massive list, or face the upset of those not included.
January 21st, 2008
Paul, Am with you on blog rolls. Fuelrolls are different, I’ll come buy a beer or two in a couple of weeks if you are free and i’ll show you
January 21st, 2008
I’m sure you can, in fact I expect you to, have a go at being more risky Paul. I’d like to see this blog banned in several countries!
The MyBlogLog widget looks nice now, by the way.
January 21st, 2008
@kevind - you can buy me beer anytime you’re in town or we end up at the same event. In the meantime, what on earth is a ‘fuelroll’?
@Phil - thanks for your kind words about the MyBlogLog - feel free to comment on any part of the blog. It’s always good to get feedback on what works and what doesn’t. I still need to import my Segala posts which aren’t Segala-specific.
I’ll be as risk as it gets
January 22nd, 2008