Soon Exiting Livejournal ...
Hi all. So, within a month or so, I'll be abandoning this blog. Well, I may actually still use it for personal stuff, but that will all be friendlocked. Everything else will be moving to my new blog on VictorInfante.com. If you follow this blog on Feedly or some other blog reader, please add the VictorInfante.com blog, as this one will become functionally inactive soon.
You might be asking yourself Why? I mean. it's more likely, you don't really care, but you may be asking that. And the truth is, I'd been maintaining this blog, my Tumblr account and the new VictorInfate.com blog for sometime now, never mind my Twitter, Facebook, etc. accounts, and it's getting kind of exhausting, and I have to think about integrating some of this.
The fact is, LJ is the best of the blogging platforms, hands-down. The ability to lock posts and screen comments alone was worth a paid account. But when I started on LJ, everyone was here. There was a vibrant community that crossed over several of the worlds I live in. Now, very few people seem active here.
Most people come to my blog through either Twitter or Facebook, which means it doesn't matter what platform it lives on. If LJ was still a bustling place, that would be enough reason to stay. As it's not, the impulse to have my blog live with all the other content and information on VictorInfante.com is too tempting to pass up: If someone who doesn't know much about me or my work comes across one of my blog posts and likes what they read, they can find out about my work much easier. That's an attractive feature.
Also, Lea put together a really nifty blogging feature on the site, so I should use it. (:
All told, this is a good time to make the transition because I'm not terribly busy right now. Radius and the Telegram aside, I'm spending most of my time either writing or dealing with trying to sell Why We Should Suffer For This (which is another blog post). I have no gigs on the horizon and only a handful of publications on the horizons. Good time to reorganize.
We still have a few technical matters to work out, and I might try to see this blog off with some silliness -- What? Doesn't everybody throw a party for ending their blog? -- but I expect to be fully transitioned over there by mid-August. For most people, it will make no difference, but if you read this on your LJ friends list and DON'T follow me on Twitter or Facebook, please add me there. Otherwise, that's that.
Is it wrong to feel a little sentimental about switching blogs? This one and I have been through a lot together, after all.
You might be asking yourself Why? I mean. it's more likely, you don't really care, but you may be asking that. And the truth is, I'd been maintaining this blog, my Tumblr account and the new VictorInfate.com blog for sometime now, never mind my Twitter, Facebook, etc. accounts, and it's getting kind of exhausting, and I have to think about integrating some of this.
The fact is, LJ is the best of the blogging platforms, hands-down. The ability to lock posts and screen comments alone was worth a paid account. But when I started on LJ, everyone was here. There was a vibrant community that crossed over several of the worlds I live in. Now, very few people seem active here.
Most people come to my blog through either Twitter or Facebook, which means it doesn't matter what platform it lives on. If LJ was still a bustling place, that would be enough reason to stay. As it's not, the impulse to have my blog live with all the other content and information on VictorInfante.com is too tempting to pass up: If someone who doesn't know much about me or my work comes across one of my blog posts and likes what they read, they can find out about my work much easier. That's an attractive feature.
Also, Lea put together a really nifty blogging feature on the site, so I should use it. (:
All told, this is a good time to make the transition because I'm not terribly busy right now. Radius and the Telegram aside, I'm spending most of my time either writing or dealing with trying to sell Why We Should Suffer For This (which is another blog post). I have no gigs on the horizon and only a handful of publications on the horizons. Good time to reorganize.
We still have a few technical matters to work out, and I might try to see this blog off with some silliness -- What? Doesn't everybody throw a party for ending their blog? -- but I expect to be fully transitioned over there by mid-August. For most people, it will make no difference, but if you read this on your LJ friends list and DON'T follow me on Twitter or Facebook, please add me there. Otherwise, that's that.
Is it wrong to feel a little sentimental about switching blogs? This one and I have been through a lot together, after all.
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