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Blogging about blogging is even worse than writing about writing.  It’s usually a sign that a blog is a dead or that the author has nothing to say.  (The mainstream media should think about that before they write another story about the struggles faced by the mainstream media.)

I often see posts about blogging on blogs that have about five posts.  One announcing the creation of the blog.  One that talks about a movie or some crap, then one talking about why the writer thought they should get a blog and what their blog is about.  Then silence.  After a few months of that, there’s another post that says the writer is really going to start blogging now.  Then a few months later, another one like that.  Then nothing.

So and So’s  “Random Musings” has died.

Having said all that — I’d like to do a quick post about this blog.  A lot of you were kind enough to follow me over here so I want to give you the low-down on what you can expect.  Rather, what I think you can expect.  I have no game-plan.  But I do know this — Things are going to be a bit different.

First of all — there’s going to be a slight shift in content.  This new-to-me blogging software allows me to post quicker and easier.  This means more short posts about things I find online.  More robot stories, more wacky pictures, more short link-based posts. The motto around here has always been “Quality, Oddity, Banality.” You can expect more of the oddities and the banalities.  You might have already noticed the shift.

Those of you that have been around since the blogger days will remember when The Grumpy Owl was that sort of blog.  There was very little of “me” in it and most of the posts were short links to interesting stories — back when a long post was the exception rather than the rule.  WordPress  made running that sort of blog  difficult.  So those quick and dirty posts that I so loved fell by the wayside.  This version of WordPress makes writing those much easier.  So they’ll be back.  You’ve already seen a  few.

But don’t panic.

If you’ve joined me since the WordPress days and happen to like the longer, more essayish type of posts, you have no reason to fret.   I’ll still be writing those and at about the same frequency.  It’s just that there’s going to be a lot of other stuff too.   Instead of three days of silence between them, there’ll be three days of other stuff between them.

I don’t know if you’ll like that stuff but that’s really more of your problem than mine.

And Owl Pellets has returned.  Turned out I was wrong about Twitter being a viable replacement to that.  But Delicious Social Bookmarking mixed with automated blogging software is.

When I bookmark at least five sites, an Owl Pellets will be automatically posted here.  It’ll even have my comments.  Different Owl Pellets will be posted at least 24 hours apart.  That should keep the feature from overwhelming this site.  But we’ll see how it goes.  I might have to adjust my settings.   As for now, I’m extremely happy with how easy it is.

There’s also been a few changes to the sidebar.  I think most of those are pretty self-explanatory.  Most of what looks like it’s gone has moved or is being moved into the section marked “In My Salon.”  Just click on those little arrows and the list will drop down.  I’m sure you can figure it out from there.

And that’s about it.  You can look forward to more content here.  Some of it might not be what you expect, some of it might be more than you expect and some might be less.   If you have any problems with how something works or any suggestions on how to make something work better, feel free to email me or comment.  I can’t guarantee that I’ll follow your advice but I do listen.  I might be grumpy but I’m still an owl.