Archive for May 15th, 2009

One Lump or Two?

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Jedimoose has been up and running for a number of years now, over a number of different webhosts, blog software, designs, etc. And, to be honest, I’m pretty happy with it. Having 2 of us blog on the same site does, in some parts, is less pressure than doing one on your own. And my portion of it is also syndicated in a couple of “planets”, which is always gratifying.

However, there are times (and this is one of them) where I wonder whether or not I would be better served by having 2 blogs. There are 2 main strands of people that read my blog – people who know me through church and/or faith-related activity (say “hi”), and people who know me through technology – mostly scotluggers and lugradians (wave, people). For the most part over the years, the latter group has probably had more interesting content to read, with a lot of people in the former scratching their heads. Even some of the interesting stuff for the former is related to the latter – things like questions over DRM and privacy which affect us all.

As has previously been talked about, things are changed relatively rapidly in my life. What, in that previous post, I described as a 3-5 year timespan looks now like it might be as little as a year, and we are beginning a process now that will see us gathering a team to start a new work in a church. I will probably have a lot to say about this (as will Heather), and so I come to the point as to whether or not Jedimoose.org is the right place for all that content.

I’ve got to admit, I’m torn for a couple of reasons. On the one-hand, where my blog is syndicated it is because it’s people who know me, and want (I hope) to hear what’s going on in my life. On the other, the 2 distinct groups of people might be better served by having the choice. Back on the first hand, Jedimoose has been my home for a long time, and I’m not sure that adding an additional site will keep the content flowing here. On the flip side, having a shiny new domain to share with Heather might be more productive and cohesive as a record of our adventure.

Thoughts welcome; suggestions of potential new domains if we decided to go down that route encouraged ;)

mrBen