Very tempted to merge my blogs back together, keeping the title “Notes from the Library” for both since “Intellectual Scribblings” is getting a bit old.
The reasons for the split:
- Different stylings — titles are more important on my ‘proper’ blog, dates are more important over here.
- Some people want to read my blog but don’t care about all the junk I post on here.
However
- I believe PyBlosxom will let me have different post styles for
different categories, which means I could put my blog under
/writing/diary,/writing/soapboxetc., eliminating the templating differences. - Similarly I can direct people to
/writing/who just want blog stuff. - PyBlosxom’s strict categorising feels more powerful than two separate blogs.
- I often post content on the ‘wrong’ blog anyway.
- The separation probably confuses more people than it aids.
/Postscript 13/iv/2011:/ This has now been done.
What I did on my website (custom Django code) is to have two nominally separate blogs, under separate domains, in one single database – they could just as well be regarded as categories – with the ability to have a single post in both blogs (with shared comments and all), and to move posts from one blog to the other without breaking permalinks. So if I change my mind about where a post belongs, or can’t make up my mind at all, I have full flexibility.
Cool, but moving posts and their comments between my blogs is as simple as a few
mvcommands — my concern is more about those reading the blogs, not my administration of it.