We can’t all model ourselves on celebrity. The questions of what you present, how you present it, and how it relates to your real life are questions that have not yet been answered. Certianly, I’ve not answered them for myself.

As a development issue, the reverse chronological diary, with the daily updates to keep it relevant, this is fine, if you have the time and energy for perpetual blogging.

I’m saying there are other models, that have not been developed, and the constraint, one of them at least, is the software. The web log, the blog, needs to give way to other forms of syndication, personal publishing.

The subscription model works. I don’t have enough content for my different purposes to fill a channel, though. I’d like to create software that would allow bloggers to start conversations in a channel and continue until it dissipates, as an example.

However, I respect your desire to create a better multi-sided blogging platform, and will leave it at that.

Ric and I are the shmucks who have to make the software happen. We have to talk about it in a bit more detail.

What is a blog anyway? It’s just a web page with new content added to the top, with a datestamp. Why not write it up by hand? That kinda thing. The devil is in the details. Software evolves in tiny steps. The changes, like blogging, or tagging, or syndicated XML feeds, are seemingly trivial.

I’m not trying to be contentious with you. Merely wondering if there isn’t a better mechanism for blogging. I feel that blogging is geared toward A-Listers with celebrity blogs. I’m more likely to either carry on a discussion like this, or write a post about something I learned for others to find via Google. I don’t know that I have subscribers.

I’d like a better blogging rig.

Then, just have two different blogs and get it over with. What’s the discussion about? Sorry for sounding so blunt, but there are several bloggers who have separate blogs for several distinct aspects of their personalities. If they are interconnected often (with links and relevant references within posts), all of these blogs become a part of a larger person, in this case Alan.

C’est tout.

And being able to use a single tool as a blog editor, but direct differently-purposed posts to different blogs (in a similar way to using categories now), sounds like something useful. An opportunity perhaps?

I’m not communicating well right now, I don’t think. Maybe it has more to do with the salon in which I conduct the conversation, than with the persona that I affect.

I definately wear two separate hats. Throughout the latter half of 2005, I’d post soley on the stuff I was learning about my systems. On occasion, someone would come across a posting they found interesting and comment.

Now I appear to be having conversations, with a select few fellow bloggers. This is a very different form of blogging than what I had last year.

Thus, it would be nice to manage a software blog and a life blog, from the same control panel. Persona management? Blogging relationship management? A place to gather ideas, share them with the two different cliques, but maybe in a different way.

In any case, that’s the function of the Kiloblog. A place where ideas can be raw.

See? The software and the life personas meld here.

You assume that the different faces you wear are static, even on the scale of days or weeks. No, I don’t consider you or me that capricious in maintaining that which makes us us. Instead of dedicating different blogs to various aspects of your personality, why don’t you let each post do the talking and develop a morphing personality over time? Most people reading your blog are probably smart enough to assemble a personality just from your posts, instead of you categorizing for them in advance.

Ever since Katrina and VatulBlog became all New Orleans all the time, I maintain another blog to talk about all the other things I’m interested in. Then again, my personality and its contents come through in the NO posts, too. Guess I’m a lumper and not a splitter that way.

I am overloading my buzzwords. Bad move.

I say I’m destorying my personae, but then I recycle persona for something that I think would be useful.

I’d like to have an editor, from which I create my postings, and then when they are finished, I decide which channel to send them down.

I’d imagine a blog where you could subscribe to my different persona.

These are not facades that I create to puff myself up into a role, but simply hats I wear. Different logos, visual elements and feeds, or maybe you can have a mash up, that takes the parts you find interesting.

The nice thing would be one user interface to rule them all.

Living the Long Tail is about destroying personae. Putting yourself out there and allowing the right people find it.

I agree that maintaining a persona is an overhead. It is too difficult for an individual to use the Hollywood tricks to change how people perceive them. I am not a corporation, I cannot afford the overhead of PR and HR.

I gotta be me. I don’t have a budget for anything else.

In a very narrow sense anyway! Alan has put the question out there, and it deserves an answer. For your blog, how do you define success? I will consider this blog successful when I can post regularly with my own

Jokes aside I think separate blogs for separate purposes is probably better than than foisting multiple personae on whatever audience there is.

My blog roll has been reduced to a handful of bloggers, like everyone in these comments, who I actually converse with.

I might create a New Orleans political blog, ala AAIO, now that I see that creating separate blogs is actually quite effective.

I wish there was a single rig I could blog from. The opposite of an aggregator, an idea disseminator? Persona management?

The difference, I think, is that blogging gives you more identity and accountability. The groupings are a lot more abstract, as well. We can conduct conversations without having to create a group, the group forms around the particular ideas that interest.

Me, too. Blogging, i.e. beebing with a fancy GUI, is no different, except there are less geeks. And then you realize: non-geeks are humans, too.