As you may have noticed, this blog – justinrussell.com/blog – has sort of become the odd man out as far as my online presence is concerned. With all the other services in the landscape today, specialized blogs like Another New World and the Pine Tree Photography blog, and especially with the advent of Twitter and my own Twitter account, I don’t feel the need to have a personal blog to the extent that I did two or five years ago.
Here’s the kicker: I love to write. I feel like I haven’t been writing as much as I want lately. Sure, some of my thoughts fit nicely into 140-character tweets, and others fit in well over at ANW or PTP. But to be honest, I’m a lot more complex than that.
I’ve decided that my goal for this blog will be as a catch-all to everything that doesn’t fit anywhere else. Yes, that’s sort of a vague guideline, but if you look at my Twitterstream, that’s pretty random as well. This blog will turn into a collection of thoughts that just don’t fit into 140 characters. (And be forewarned: some of these posts are going to be long. I like to write, dammit, and that’s what I intend to do.)
I know that I’m pretty spread out across the web, so I want to make it easy for you to stay on top of the posts here even if you don’t subscribe to this blog individually. The posts here will be shown on justinrussell.com home, of course, and they’ll also be syndicated at on my Facebook profile. I’ll also put links in my Twitterstream to the posts I think are most notable (or those for which I want feedback). And maybe – if we’re lucky – this site will get a bit of a theme upgrade, too.