Welcome to my new(ish) blog
By daithi ~ August 26th, 2008. Filed under: Housekeeping.
I’ve started this blog as a spin-off from another blog called Lex Ferenda, which has been on the Web since early 2006. I started Lex Ferenda as a PhD student. In the summer of 2008, I started a new job as a full-time lecturer, and it seemed a good time to deal with the slightly blurry status of Lex Ferenda as a blog about law and technology that had also become a home for various other things. I’ve noticed that readers tended to fall into one of two categories, people who came for the specific posts about law, and people (mostly friends and casual Googlers) who came to posts about coffee and travel and books and that sort of thing. With the wonders of the feed reader, having two separate blogs isn’t that hard, and it means that the reader/commenter/stalker can choose to follow either or both (or indeed neither, but that’s another story). I’m also going to set up a ’single feed’ of both blogs, and hope to have that live in the near future.
Having this blog will also, I hope, give me a chance to launch some other things, like photo galleries, that wouldn’t have fitted into Lex Ferenda all that well. And I might migrate some of the popular non-law content across from it in due course.
The idea isn’t to suggest that law and legal topics can be cut off from the rest of the world. That’s not the case at all, and I hope that some people will continue to subscribe to both. In my head, there are a lot of links between the personal posts and the more research-oriented ones. I can see, though, how the very technical or dry posts aren’t to everyone’s taste, and similarly how complaining about flight delays is pretty dull if you’re looking for links to stories about new media. Sometimes, I’ll post in both places simultaneously, where it seems appropriate.
The first task is to resurrect my dormant blogroll. Advance apologies if I leave out good friends and regular readers; what I’ll be doing is taking Google Reader subscriptions and importing them, but again splitting between the two blogs might cause a few things to drop between the cracks. Let me know if I’ve left you out.
Anyway, if you’re reading this, you’ve probably made the jump to Rhymes With Porridge, and thanks for doing that. The name, by the way, is inspired by the great cartoon strip Rhymes With Orange, which itself alludes to the old story that nothing rhymes with orange. Moving from Dublin to Norwich, I’ve had to deal with some extremely unusual placenames and pronounciations, starting with the city itself, which seems to sound something like porridge, especially on local lips. Thus, Rhymes With Porridge. Sorry…
August 28th, 2008 at 11:39 am
[...] detailed explanation of why I’m doing this, and what the new blog will contain, is available here. As part of the split, I’ll change some other things around here, so please bear with me as I [...]
August 28th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Greedy blogger with more than one blog. Blogs don’t grow on trees y’know.
Subbed!
August 28th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
And how many blogs do you have now, oh King of the Blog O’Sphere?
And I know that blogs don’t grow on trees.
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They grow on tubes.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Greedy indeed, though Mr. Mulley is one to be talking.
Suppose I’ll have to sub to both for now, just to see if you can hold my attention
August 29th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Well done on this. Excellent idea. Keep it up. I shall subscribe to the joint feed, of course; so hurry up with that. Will you be introducing a law-relating blogroll on Lex, or is everything intended to be here?
August 29th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Yeah, I hope to add/revive a law blogroll on Lex Ferenda, when I get around to it. Maybe
September 1st, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Happy new-ish blog! I have subscribed to this one as well; much admiration on your dedication here, and more than a little envy on your time management skills.
September 8th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Congrats on the new job (again) and will be a subscriber to both here and Lex Ferenda.
September 20th, 2008 at 5:39 am
YOU, Mr Privacy, are planning to create photo galleries?!? whoa…
September 25th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Hi Daithi,
Just cruising about some of the disgracefully leftwing blogs in Ireland and up ya popped. Nice twin blogs, and Lex is already useful…
September 27th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Hi Daithi,
I was wondering about the blog title….but it is an accurate pronunciation guide! Glad to see you have managed to get broadband sorted…..i had similar delays earlier in the summer (though in my case i couldn’t get a broadband provider until BT reconnected a landline - 3 phonecalls and 2 internet orders over the space of 3 weeks were required). Was shocked to discover how much of my life is organised through the internet!
I only managed to attend the first day of GIKII - it was excellent. Fernando was very informative yet hilariously funny! Judith and Lilian had a good spat on privacy v freedom to blog all aspects of life. Ray Corrigan gave a detailed analysis of how Radar technology was used in WWII - and sensibly warned that the use of technologies should not be at the whim of technologically illiterate politicians who are in the process of
deploying massive surveillance systems with no clearly defined
purpose (id cards, child databases, NHS e-records spring to mind!)
chat soon, K
October 11th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
@daisy: sorry, you got stuck in a spam queue. And they won’t be photos of me, silly