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
If you want to stay with JediMoose can you just separate posts with tags or categories?
I tend to tag all of my posts as general for people that wish to subscribe to everything. Then I use linux/finances/family and so on to tag a specific post. So friends, family and strangers can chose what aspects of my life they want to peer at. For planets I tend to post relevant feeds to them.
Can the sites that syndicate you not exclude particular tags or categories? Or alternatively specifically include tags or categories? Seems to be more of a technical issue rather than a lifestyle issue
@both – currently jedimoose has different categories for myself and BigAl, and I only syndicate my own category to the sites that are interested in me. I guess the question is over what syndication is for, and whether or not it’s about who you are and what you’re doing, or whether it’s their because your content is relevant to a particular audience.
There are some advantages to splitting it off separately, not least that Heather and I (who both have our own blogs already) can blog together, which would see a separate dynamic.
I think ultimately what I may do is set up a separate blog that we’ll use, but then cross-post the titles into a summary page, a bit like people who post their twitter updates to their blog on a weekly basis. I think that’s probably the easiest way to get the best of both worlds.
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