So I’ve been quite busy this summer with my job, yard work, family
activities and general hobbies. Lately I’ve been hearing a bunch about
Facebook in the blogosphere and in my real “social” network. I’ve also
had the chance to become semi-addicted to it and actually catch up with
some of my old friends from high school and my slightly more recent
singles scene days. Fortunately, my wife has been on as well, and most
of my old single friends were also hers, so there’s no “conflict of
interest” issues in that regard .

Anyway, between my supreme annoyance with MySpace and the popularity of
comparisons between MySpace and Facebook, and between the general lack
of usefulness of LinkedIn at the time (though it has since improved
significantly with its Answers features…) I decided to give Facebook
a try. I also decided to import this blog into my Facebook account,
although it has been quiet for quite some time, so I haven’t figured
out exactly how much value my Facebook inclusion adds to the blog, or
vice versa. Expect more analysis in this regard soon. Based on this comment on one of Guy Kawasaki’s blog entries, and a comment leading me to this blog entry,
I hadn’t fully understood the connection (and I still probably don’t)
or the implications of personal and blog branding. Now, however, these
posts have been prompted me to make a better connection and try to
streamline the scopes of my blog and my general interaction with the
Internet and my social circles around me.

So, my posts should start to take on a more directed and
subject-oriented matter. I’ll leave my personal rantings for either a
separate blog or at least a topic dedicated to that purpose . If any
of my (probably small number) followers (read interested parties, not
’sheeple’) have topics they’d like my thoughts on, or research on, feel
free to email me or comment on various of my articles.