This is my new blog.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
This is a post I ran recently at my Posterous blog, announcing my move over here. I thought I’d put it here for reference while I finish drafting a proper post about how my personal take on blogging has evolved over the years.
Dear people who read this website,
Here is a list of things I want to tell you:
- I made a new website. It’s located at http://joeross.me. It is called “By Joe Ross.” The title may not be creative, but the content will be good.
- I made it because Twitter bought Posterous in mid-March, and Posterous hasn’t said a word to its users since. I trust they will give users notice before a shutdown, but TweetDeck has mostly stagnated in the wake of its acquisition by Twitter, and I don’t want to keep investing my content in something that will potentially go away soon.
- My Posterous blog, from now on, will consist only of links to new posts at my new blog.
- My new site is a Wordpress.org installation registered via Hover.com and hosted (for now, at least) with HostGator.
- My new blog will focus on law and technology, and how the two intersect. There won’t be many images, because finding images for posts has been a distraction for me and I want to focus on what I’m saying.
- My new blog won’t include photos of my pets, thoughts about gaming (unless there’s a legal or new-tech angle), or posts about food. That kind of stuff will live at my Tumblr.
- I will be importing relevant posts from my Posterous blog to my new blog over the next several weeks. I won’t post links to those on the Posterous, since that’s where they came from.
- I will maintain my Posterous blog for as long as Posterous maintains their service.
- There are at least thirty folks subscribed to my Posterous blog’s RSS feed. Thanks for that! But my new feed is here, so update your reader. The feed will remain full-content.
- I’m excited to write more during the summer due to a lighter course load, and I hope you like the new site.
Thanks,
Joe