Yesterday I managed to go a long way with MType, though the look is too corporate, and I want more control over the column size, placement and so on, which I believe is beyond stylesheet modification. And now I can do everything with MT I can do with Blogger. So, I have three blogs: this, ELD3740 the wrapped blog, and the MT blog. I think I am going to call it quits on scanning blog-landia because it is becoming too much like cable TV, scanning to see what's on and coming away feeling time's been wasted. Along with a lot of self absorbed junk blogging, I have found homeless blogs, regional blogs (Southern US, Israel), environmental blogs. And all may become relevant some day, but watching TV/bloglandia is not what my life is all about, so I have to shut down the screen. Important as weblogging may be as a new social phenomena (BTWThe PBS Lehrer Report did a segment on blogging yesterday, which says its really getting mainstream), its going to roll on with me or without me. And my job is to answer: how is all this going to play in my life? Well, this morning I could not write in the blog about something that happened yesterday. It was a visit to a homeless shelter. I could (and did) write when I had absolute assurance no one would ever see it. I may yet publish it. But for the moment, blogging shut me down. It was that hesitation you have about sharing things that are too personal, things that are too intimate, things that make you cry. I think I may maintain a private blog, as I have since 1995 (Crested Butte and my first laptop) which will be totally unpublished, though subject to excerpt and publish, and some private, self-education blogging for my own reference, which I will allow others to access, but which may be boring. And then I am thinking, worthwhile public blog on some areas that I really like, with a definable audience, and with contributing colleagues. Public blogs, the good ones are funny and/or newsy and/or intelligent and/or lively and/or truly connecting with an audience.