falling off the blogging wagon

Clearly, I have not thrown much up on this virtual wall lately. Facebook and it's easy iPhone app have sucked most of my random thoughts away from this venue - status updates are the wave of the present.

The usual time-sucks - work, my other (freelance) work, and a desire to capitalize on my leisure opportunities are in play here, as is my general trait toward inaction in the absence of an actual deadline.

I'm hoping to keep, or restart, or start for the first time (depending on how you look at it) a line from my brain to this outlet for my thoughts, mostly for my own amusement (which is all it's ever been, since a sporadic blog of totally random links and thoughts garners about 5 hits a day at the best of times).

No promises, of course. But maybe I can wean myself off the Facebook and start to throw a few status updates Blogger's way.

great googly eyes

Once upon a time, a Google search on myself turned up a list of articles I'd written for various outlets. A while back, the list became a bit more sparse when the Hattiesburg American put all its archives behind a fee wall (and now you're hard pressed even to find the page where you can pay for my past writings).

There are a few quirky pages the American has kept up, which means this is one of the few remaining easily accessed and searched examples of my work. Had someone told me these articles would be the cockroaches of my career, surviving the destruction of all else, I would have put a bit more thought into them, rather than churning them out as quick as possible to fill sports' quota in an advertising section. They never tell you the important details at the time.

And the new top page on my egotistical Google search is also curious to me. It's a comment left on Ryan's old blog. Nothing against Ryan, but a page of his comments is apparently deemed more important by the Internet community than any other example of my writing. Beware the new media...