kbadr wrote:If you don't care about who reads what...
Hadn't thought about this. I probably don't care, but I suppose I should take that into account. Especially if I suspect someone of tender years (oh, say, my daughter) should peruse it.
Although I occasionally write for a few more controversial sites and have been known to relish generating dissension and getting into some smashmouth textual sparring, perhaps this putative blog would not be the place for that.
kbadr wrote:...and have a Facebook account...
Don't and doubt in the extreme I ever will. The very name and concept behind it repel me.
kbadr wrote:Though I should also mention that I have recently moved to writing in a physical journal, because I realized I don't have much interest in getting feedback, or censoring what I really need to say about a given topic.
I, too, keep a physical journal. The Edinburgh posts were often excerpts from it (with the occasional spontaneous flights of fancy). My physical journal though, tends to be a mess of random thoughts, essays, lyrics, poems, diagrams, cartoons and hastily scribbled musical sequences. I think a blog would provide me with an outlet for a more organized presentation.
Seriously, a typical page in my journal can often consist of a lyric fragment, a few brief ideas on inexpensive steps we could be taking now in order to terraform Mars, a couple of half-worked jokes, a way to smoothly change keys from Dm to Ab, a short story about the first time I saw a stag as a five year-old, an expression of outrage over the S. African practice of "corrective rape", poor attempts at sketching Kepler's interlocking Platonic solids, a reminiscence about something funny my mom said once and the word "blouse" written 20 times because the more you write (or say) it the sillier it looks (or sounds).
See my problem? Organization...
Hmmm. Wordpress seems like the consensus so far. I'll check it out, and I continue to welcome input.