So for no really defensible reason, I’ve decided to take the old blog out of mothballs. Partly, I’m curious about exploring the new set of integration tools that have been developed to bridge the gap between Facebook and the still-popular WordPress and Twitter. In particular, comment management is a tricky issue, and I want to give a few systems a try.

(If all goes well, I might try a similar integration with my dedicated political blog-on-hiatus. God help any followers I still have at that point .)

But there are also considerations of ownership and permanence. Sure, at one level, we’re all just talking about electrons, but I work kinda hard at crafting some of the things I write, and leaving all of that purely in the Cloud is disconcerting. You ever try to retrieve something from half a year back from Facebook? At least my writing on the blog exists in drives in my basement.

So we’ll see where this experiment goes. Blog posts will automatically post a 400-character summary to FB. And I’ll continue to post certain things directly to FB that don’t seem blog-appropriate. Feedback and suggestions are always appreciated, and you are free to knowingly chuckle if I decide the whole thing is too much effort after two weeks or two months.