Alan Gutierrez

The Kiloblog Concept

I’ve been discussing persona management with some fellow bloggers. I’m created a new blog as a place to let ideas develop. Where I can introspect. This blog is going to be called Alan’s Kiloblog.

http://kiloblog.com/

Why? Because it should be higher volume that Alan’s Blogometer.

Blogging Alone

When a person has an office and a home, the division is simple. When those lives a mashed together by a Google search or feed reader, the division between home and office is merely overhead with no return.

There are no boundaries in the blogosphere. There is no water cooler where I can tell you in confidence that I don’t think the new boss likes me. It will appear in the boss’s vanity feed at the next refresh. The best tact is to say nothing.

The upshot is that an online career is isolated and incomplete.

My blog becomes a shield. It corrupts itself into a place where I pontificate and crow. It’s all persona. Until the day that I realize how vapid it is, and I start dumping my sysadmin notes. My work. That’s all. Nothing to see here. Move along.

What Blogging Means To Me

I blog in the hopes of making connections with people in other cities.

In New Orleans the hope was that I could live in New Orleans, and still work on Java and XML, social networking, and what is know known as Web 2.0.

Then I came back to Ann Arbor, which has more contract work for me, and the support of family, but the goal was still the same. Release an open source offering. Be known for a niche project, with niche adoption. Work from my laptop, where ever it may lie, supporting the software. Save money. Buy a house in the Marigny/Bywater.

This is isn’t working, for lack of a water cooler. The bland professional persona of my blog, with occasional quips about the meme du jour, it does nothing for me. There is a personality here, I swear it.

Now That You Know I’m A Dog

I’ll be working on keeping it real. My first project is to return to my notes from when I left New Orleans for Ann Arbor. I had a lot of clarity then. In there was a notion of what I wanted to accomplish through blogging.

I’ll also post more photographs, of myself and of Ann Arbor.

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