Strange Intersection
I ran into a VC who has a weblog on typepad. Lately, I’ve been looking for VC’s because I’ve got a new business idea, and (foolish or not), I’m going to raise money and reinvent myself. This is an experiment in doing what I know I’m capable of.
So, I thought, "Hey, I set up that weblog myself with Movable Type 2 years ago". I did. I went back to it. It’s on one of the dozens of servers I own and control, so it was cheap and free. Hmmm. I bet there’s an upgrade to MovableType. Let’s see. Oh look, there is. Lots of options. Do I want to pay? Look down at the bottom of the page, there it is "Don’t want to install any software? 90-day free trial".
I click.
Hey, I’m back at TypePad where I saw Fred’s (the VC) weblog. Serendipity has been running my life lately. So, why bother with my own server, I have enough to do. Time management has been a high-priority for me lately (thank you Alec Mackenzie). I set one up here. Let’s see how it goes.
Why have a weblog? I have no idea at this point. I’m not sure what function they serve. I had a website (Carl and Gary’s Visual Basic Home Page, 1994) which was, for a while, the most visited site for programmers on the web. I think we had 8 million hits a week for a while. I swore to myself "I’m going to start a personal site!" Never happened. I started a web company instead. 10 years later I still don’t have my own site.
Until now.
It may not last. I’ve been doing a lot of "People Networking" lately. Joined Orkut. Looked up myriads of old contacts. I’m steeped in the philosophies of consumer behavior and technology adoption (because of my new project). Reading and filling my brain completely. Maybe a weblog is a chance to "flush" now and then? We’ll see.
