Okay Then, Here's The Initial and Provisional Deal . . .
Having waded navel-deep into Blogging 2.0, my first thought is to make this an adjunct to my 1.0 weblog: The one that's domained, art-directed, and features a needless-but-slightly-impressive dynamic masthead. This has nothing to do with the just-launched minimalism of Posterous or the greater control and complexity of the Other Blog.
Rather, the ease of posting here and the austere presentation favor the frequent quick-capture of short observations. In contrast, the natural cruising speed of the Other Blog seems to be less-frequently posted 2,000 word pieces. These two types of post can be combined, but--at least from my vantage as a professional magazine-maker--not without seriously dicking around with the structure with the classic reverse chrono that's the quintessence of weblogs. Think how the Morning News guys circumvented the basic structure of a Movable Type blog.
But when sticking closer to a perpetually superseded river of personal news, I'm personally uncomfortable with the unavoidably show-stopping affect a 150-word rant about, say, Indiana Jones in a lead-lined refrigerator has on a previous, carefully crafted 2,000-word explanation of how memory functions in a novel-in-progress. And, to be fair, the same sort of psychological havoc occurs when a Big Piece on parallax-as-metaphor interrupts the party atmosphere of a run of three short, nicely trenchant observations on Life, the Universe and Everything.
So short of redesigning my Other Blog to paradoxically both sequester and highlight shorter, more free-associative posts, putting the miscellanea seems an effective strategy. Thus the current plan is to explore a short-form voice and and then link this place to the Other Blog--and vice versa.
It occurs to me that offering an aggregated RSS feed of the both here and the Other Blog might be something worth exploring after I'm settled in here. We'll see.
Warning: The next two posts will undoubtedly be obligatory multimedia tests. (Here's a question for the Posterous Godz, if any happen to be lurking: Is there a size limit on MP3 files? Or more precisely, do Terrible Things happen if I toss a 3.5 mb demo song up here as a test?)
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