Transition. For Simplicity's sake
Ah, blogdom.
How I have missed you. I hope you've missed me. More likely, you've found another pretty girl (by "pretty girl" I mean entertaining blogger) to pass your time with and I'm just a memory from the past rushing by your eyes with a slight sense of acknowledgement.
That stinks, but I understand.
I haven't been very nice to you. I don't call, I don't write. All I do is re-post other people's videos or pictures of me and my kids doing stuff out in the real world without you. I've not been very loyal. But I've also been busy. Letting Ella raise Raising two kids is far more time consuming than letting Ella raise raising one. And yet, here I am. A little older (I've had a birthday since we last spoke), a little wiser and in the mood some blogeration.
But why am I here instead of Weareawesome.net?
In a word. Simplicity.
I started using Posterous last winter to keep up with all the silly little pop culture things I see across the interwebs (or the Youtubes as my buddy Richard likes to call it). But somewhere along the way, it became so much more inviting than my digital home of two years, weareawesome.net. We got that website (the domain name was a suggestion from Amanda T.) just before Judah was born when we bought our new (at the time) iMac. With my purchase of an iPhone later that summer, keeping MobileMe (the Apple service that hosts the website seemed like a no-brainer. I love the site, and honestly there are some things we could do with it, that we won't be able to with our hodge-podge collection of web prescences on Posterous, Twitter, Flickr and Facebook. But that list is very short and frankly worth sacrificing.
I'm blogging less than ever in the past several years, not only because I have little to say, but also because it's a pain in the butt to put it all together. iWeb (the software I use to manage Weareawesome) is only on our desktop at home. I don't have a laptop to manage it on the go, and at work I have a PC. There's no way to post to the blog remotely or even manage comments on pictures.
In the time since we started the website, more and more of the family have presences on Facebook so posting photos of the kids there and on Posterous and Flickr makes more sense than hosting them all ourselves.
What does this mean for you, my reader?
Hopefully, more frequent blogs. Richer posts with connections to all of our online locations, not just links back to the mothership. It also means that I'll have to sync my contacts and calendars to my phone with the USB cable instead of them happening automagically over the air, but I think I can handle that.
So, consider this the dawn of a new day. We're still awesome, we're just getting rid of some clutter and using the latest and greatest tools at our disposal.
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