Hello, Friend

posted by Jaitu at 16:04

The whole superinterwebnethighway is morbidly obese with pointless content and I am not doing anything to change that. It means that as consumer you have the choice. If you have trouble choosing then you're in over your head already.

I've *had* a blog almost since blogging first became the hot new thing oh-so many years ago.
It's moved home on a roughly biennial basis. Usually after stagnating for around 21 to 22 months or so. My blogs always start out written in a 'Hello, Friend' style with a few words saying how I'm having another go at this and how This-Time^tm it will be different and I'll make a proper effort and find something remotely interesting to chuck up on a website. This lasts about a week then posts become "Hey, this is cool and you should really take a look" for a month, maybe two, before the rains start and the covers come on and everyone leaves before Cliff starts singing.

So now I'm seeking help. I've proven (to myself - no one else has been looking) that I can't be trusted to do this on my own. I like to think I have some 'creative ability', don't we all, but there are genuinely creative people all around and I aim to shamelessly steal a little glory by association. Seeing as how I have wasted every hosted meg I have ever paid for I'm inviting others to do what they will with the opportunity. Some have had their own blogs. Some have made good use of them. Some have been as lack lustre as me. Some have been published in proper media. Some are slowly building their own digital kingdoms. All, I think, could contribute something worth at least as much as I can. Together, I hope, something at worst the sum of it's parts should emerge.
Let's face it, if I can get five others to write for the site then that's my readership increased five hundred per cent. You can check the maths, I didn't.

What should you expect to find amongst these posts? Well, that I cannot tell you with any certainty.
(*these* posts so far are what's left of mine after the purge. I'm talking about the posts that *will* (Read: might) appear here when those supremely talented and insightful individuals get up to steam and start churning out the wisdom).
We have people I hope to get tech info from, people I hope to get rants from, people I hope to get slightly surrealist adventure stories from, people I hope to get insiders views from, people I hope to get outsiders views from. We should see everyday man on the street stuff, fond memories and hopes for the future. What we did today, what we would have preferred to do today. Shameless self-aggrandizement and promotion. Almost without doubt huge periods of inactivity punctuated by "Hey, this is cool and you should really take a look"