I think I have had somewhat of a mid-life blogging crisis.

Maybe it was bound to happen. I have never been one for long-attention-span activities, like reading a book cover-to-cover, or doing my own income taxes. For almost two years I treated my blog as canvas on which to share my longer thoughts, ramblings, and ventings. It was much the cornerstone of my online presence, both from a visual and a written perspective.

Perhaps one reason I have not done too well, by my own estimation, with blogging is that I failed the first test of blogmanship: find a topic and stick to it. Travel. Automotive. Politics. Religion. Social Services. Technology. It seems that most of the successful blogs surround an overall topic or theme. That is not something I do well. There is so much to talk about and comment on that it is easy for me to lose focus.

When I set up this blog it was on a whim, without a whole lot of thought related to what I would do with it, what I would say, or what I wanted to achieve. I just wanted to have a place that was my own. Since that time the whole social networking landscape has progressed: FriendFeed, Twitter, and Facebook, all accessed from my iPhone, have changed the way I interact with the online world. I am not the only one.

It seems to me that as blogs became more mainsteam in 2006 and 2007, they have lost a lot of their charm. Blogs used to be highly personal, written by REAL people about their REAL thoughts. Many have since become professional or semi-professional writings about commercial projects and organized movements —not nearly as personal, not nearly as interesting.

So I am here to recommit to my blog. I had a lot of fun with it. There is time for Social Networking (Facebook), Micro-Blogging (Twitter) and the traditional Retro-Blogging. I am not setting a schedule. I am not setting rules, except that I will continue to break the first rule by not following a topic or an idea, or playing to any audience other than myself.

Feel free to come along.  Or not.