When I moved away from weblogs.asp.net, I was adamant that I wanted to be able to cross-post back to there. That way I could write whatever the heck I wanted here and then push only .net related stuff over there. I started to get frustrated by having a split personality, by having comments there and not here and finally by realizing that many people were reading my blog there as part of the main feed and not realizing that I am over here. So I haven’t cross-posted in a long long time. (Though I did make two “teaser” posts that pointed to posts that I wrote here.) So I noticed today that on the new blogs.asp.advice feed that Jeff Julian has a blog there. That confuses me. I think that personally I am more of the mind that I want to read what someone says all in one place – I am after the person, not the topic so much. Steve Smith moved over there, too but i think that is going to be his only place for posting. Alex Lowe is there which now adds to his posts since he is also on blogs.msdn.com (aka weblogs.asp.net/MainFeed.aspx?GroupID=2). However Alex clearly states on the new blog that “This blog exists only to highlight interesting discussions on AspAdvice.com. Stay tuned for pointers! “

I saw on Halley Suitt’s blog this a.m. and was reminded in an email from O’Reilly press this p.m. that Joe Trippi just got added to O’Reilly’s Emerging Tech Conference next week. They have a whole day  called the Digital Democracy Teach-In. I read somewhere that it is Joe Trippi that people run to for autographs during some of the (past) Dean travels.

The Daily Grind. Admit it. You (developers) all read it and this is how you read it. First you do a quick scan to see if your name is in there – if you actually wrote something (comment/software/utility) worthy of being listed in one of the most valuable online developer resources. Then and only then do you go back to the top, read Mike’s quip on whatever is going on in his life that day, then start ticking through the great links (and keen observations) he has listed.

I am clearly procrastinating at the moment. Rich went skiing (boo hoo hoo) and I said “You go on and have a nice time, honey. I am working on my presentation today!” New snow, no crowds a little bit of sunshine and blue sky peeking through and temperate weather. This is why I have a season pass and live 7 miles from Mad River Glen. Whine whine whine.

Well, I am getting lazy and not cross-posting lately. THere’s a new problem with time stamps and I just didn’t feel like dealing with it. I guess only the important people will be reading my blog now – those who subscribe to it!

Dave’s in Burlington today (seem’s that Dean blogging thing really attracts the bloggerati). I’m trying to figure out how to track him down for a possible blogger dinner. So I thought I’d try the old “referral” trick (and a comment and an e-mail, too!)

Recently, Robert Scoble has shared his thoughts on community blogs and his preference for independent blogs.

Robert posted his OPML this morning and I went and took a looksee.

Couldn’t help but notice that although I have moved my blog (yes though I am still cross-posting SOME of my content) he is not subscribed to my indie blog, but whatever happens to come through to the main feed of the group blog. (It’s true, I do, indeed, expect him to be subscribed to my blog!)

I am still tormented about the idea discontinuing the cross-posting.

Yes you read that title correctly. I just learned about this class through it’s instructor, Nancy Pera who’s blog “BlahBlahBlog” has the skinny on this class. Don’t you just love that name? BlahBlahBlog!

“…professional development course on blogging–The Reading-Writing Connection: Internet Publishing made SIMPLE with Weblogs. I teach in the second largest district in the nation, and as far as I know this will be the first blogging course offered. I wonder what will happen.“

The class is for teachers, though Nancy also works with elementary school students and they are learning about blogging as well.

Nancy is also a fan of tablets and has encouraged me to stop sleeping at night and get BLInk! finished so that I can share it with her students. (She did not put on that heavy pressure, that’s my own doing).

Not only can you read about the course as it progresses on Nancy’s blog (can I just say that title again? BlahBlahBlog!), but you can see the output from the class here which includes some pros and cons.

Looks like Shelley’s flirting with her blog again. Not sure what to make of it – since I believe she is on a much needed hiaitus. She says “not starting up – just needed to share some important info…”. Okay. Just nice to know she’s around.

So InfoWorld has a nice article (by my pal Joris Evers who did the tablet article that I was interviewed for) interviewing Sara Williams about the new weblogs that are officially now at blogs.msdn.com (thanks to Scott Watermasysk’s .TEXT weblog). Yet at the end of the article it says (and I quote):

“Sara Williams’ Microsoft blog is at: http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/saraw/”

🙂

I keep thinking that I will stop cross-posting to my other blog (weblogs.asp.net/jlerman) but then I look at the lack of activity on this blog and think that nobody even knows it exists. I will continue to cross-post until I have a comfort level with the fact that my thoughts (especially those regarding .net) won’t get completely lost.