I just deleted another WordPress blog that wasn’t going anywhere — CHI AND ME, in which I was going to explore the possibility that cyberspace is full of chi. The possibility still interests me, but I don’t think I need a whole blog for it. At the same time I added a new blog — VERMONT ALMANAC to accommodate some of my weather records if I ever get around to posting them. So now I’m up to (or down to?) 23 WordPress blogs and 11 Blogger blogs for a grand total of 34 blogs.

As of January 20, 2007 I have 28 blogs. Things are getting worse, not better, but I want to keep exploring the possibilities until I exhaust them or myself….

Between Blogger and WordPress, I now have a total of 26 blogs. Part of me wants one continuous journal of everything all in one place — like my old handwritten journals, which I shredded in 2001. But another part of me wants separate repositories for separate mindsets or different functions. Several of my blogs are functional, historic, fixed, or orderly rather than bloggish (by which I mean free-form and in present time): NATURALIST’S JOURNAL, GALE LAWRENCE, BIRDATHONS, BIRD TREKS, BIRDS AFIELD, TOM’S BIRDS, FACTOIDS, PROGRESS REPORTS, NEXTBOOK, BOOKALIKE, NATURALIST’S ARCHIVE, NATURALIST’S CALENDAR— plus my old Blogger blogs: NATURALIST’S ALMANAC, ABOUT NATURALIST’S ALMANAC, ABOUT LIBBY’S ILLUSTRATIONS, NATURALIST’S BOOK OF DAYS, HUB’S BOOK, COMMONPLACE, BIRD NOTES, PLANT NOTES, and WEBLIOGRAPHY.

Others of my blogs are more exploratory: my old Blogger HOMEWORK FOR A VISION, and my WordPress MY PROGRESS, MY QUESTIONS, CHI AND ME, and CYBER DUMP. I really don’t know which ones to keep and which ones to retire. Maybe I should start a WordPress version of HOMEWORK FOR A VISION and consolidate all my exploratory writings there? But I think I still need a DUMP — an instant repository for all the stuff I just want to get out of my system at any given moment: no rules, no constraints, a huge and nonjudgmental place to fume and vent and exorcise.

So now I have 13 Word Press blogs. Not all of them are active, but they have titles, URLs, templates, etc. I’ve spent the past few days converting a Blogger blog of Birdathons to a Word Press blog. I’m hoping it’s an improvement, but I’ll have to live with it a while. I’m exhausted.

Today I added two WordPress blogs that will let me retire three Blogger blogs. I might even retire them all because what I really should be doing is keeping my bird lists in a database, either Excel or maybe eBird. I got very frustrated by the different search tools on the different WordPress templates.

I decided to delete 2 Word Press blogs and 1 Blogger blog. Now will I be able to focus on the important ones?

As of today I have 14 blogs with Blogger, 2 with JournalSpace, and now 6 with Word Press. I guess I’m kind of like a kitten on the keys: if I have enough blogs going maybe I’ll surprise myself by saying something that matters? Who knows? Who cares? There’s apparently enough space in cyberspace for me to keep dancing around on these keys and maybe randomly, statistically I’ll create something that pleases me. We’ll see….