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It’s with great pride, and a certain amount of trepidation, that I announce that I’ve just started a blog of my own: http://noise2sig.nl, heretofore to be referred to as Noise2Signal, or perhaps just N2S.
Now, it may seem odd to you that I’ve done this, when there’s a perfectly good blog right here where I do a heck of a lot of writing. On off days, it seems kinda odd to me, too. But I’m kind of like a teenager grown restless in her parents’ house. It’s been time, for a while now, to have my own place, where I can put my posters up and play my music real loud.
No, seriously. The real reason I’ve created the place is that I’m doing a bunch of writing—the Babylon 5 rewatch series—that isn’t a really good fit for Making Light, in content or in format. And I’ve got more such stuff planned. I want to put it somewhere I own, where it’s visibly mine and in a structure I’ve set up to hold that kind of serial posting. So although I’m putting the writeups for the rest of Season 1 on Making Light, I’m hosting comments to them over on N2S. And from Season 2 onward, the Bab 5 posts will be entirely over there. I’ll mention it here when they go up, though of course N2S is fully equipped with RSS feeds and everything.
I may, of course, write other stuff as well. I’m looking at getting some guest posters and, in time, other bloggers. I suspect N2S will end up with its own distinct voice, and that the things I do will fall more and more naturally into the two camps.
One thing it’s important to emphasize: I am not leaving Making Light. Really really not.
I just need someplace of my own too, is all.
Come on by. Have a look around. Make some comments so it feels lived-in.
Clicking on the link gets a 'page not found' message.
Fragano @1:
Because I was so nervous I munged the HTML. Try again now.
You better not leave ML! Or...I shall be Very Put Out.
Xopher @3:
I pinky swear I'm not leaving! Srsly!
Now I really have a strong incentive to watch B5 all over again.
Will puns be acceptable, provided they don't cause too much more noise than signal?
abi 4: *glares suspiciously (picture Abby Sciuto) but subsides*
One assumes poetry and puns are permitted....
Puns, being double-meaning, are more signal than unlayered commentary. And poetry is a veritable onion* of meaning, layer on layer on layer. Of course both are welcome.
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* Or parfait. Everybody likes parfait.
Parfait? Why, Shards and Splinters, it is an hour since we have spoken of anything else!
Can I just say that if you hadn't been posting the Babylon 5 Rewatch posts here, it would never have occurred to me to start watching Babylon 5. Which would have been a bad thing: I have enjoyed it almost as much as reading the posts and discussion.
OK, over to add your new blog to my RSS feed...
Onions. Sometimes you get one that looks like parfait, but the core is rotten. Other times, you can see a bad spot on it, but if you cut that out, the rest is fine. [...] I could go on, but what’s the point? In the House Jhereg, we don’t care teckla droppings about bad spots. We’re just here to sell poems.
Evilrooster Crows is going to stay dormant, then?
Enjoy it! I'm not a Babylon 5 person [random sales resistance strikes at inopportune times] but I will try to remember to check in on it and see what else is on the menu.
Bug report: I used the post-feed link to attempt to subscribe via Firefox Live Bookmarks, but it continually 'fails to load' and won't show me the list of posts.
"One thing it’s important to emphasize: I am not leaving Making Light. Really really not."
Waaaaaaaah!! You're leaving Making Light!! Waaaaaaaah!!!!
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Earl @14:
For the moment, Evilrooster Crows is best described as dormant. If it revives, it will probably be a personal blog (ie, about my kids and the like).
By the way, that's a nice picture of Ivanova... Good luck on the new blog site.
Just a suggestion, but it would probably make things easier if you put a link to your comment thread somewhere near the top of the text you post here, so we can all get there without having to click through to the full text here...
Jules @20:
Done. I've also changed the link at the bottom of the entry to lead straight to the comments thread on N2S.
Lee @22:
Courtesy of Q Pheevr, who set it up before I had time to figure out how to do it:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/noise2sig/
All hail Q Pheevr!
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