the side of public blogging

Upside--no more distractions with applications and chat and mail, like on Facebook and MySpace.  Could go back to just having the one e-mail address, and let that be the end of it.

Downside--no way to lock out the prying eyes of students.

The debate rages on.

a new hope?

I've been kicking around the idea of dropping both MySpace and Facebook, and transferring everything off site, to something less interactive, less formatted, somehow... more pure.  In fact, I've gone so far as to consider scrapping this whole computer writing thing and taking it back to newsprint and a fountain pen.  When I get really romantic, I think about vellum and dip pens; then again, have you seen the price of vellum lately?

Anyway, I'm kicking it around, for now.  I could drop all my applications, leave up the MySpace and Facebook pages just to post links to the new blog, and maybe to keep touch with all the old friends I've found, and bring it all over to a place with a few less cutesy affectations.

It's worth considering, yes?