Fixing everything, really slowly

I’m now writing about technology, but not showing it on the main web page or in my existing feed. If you want to read this new, exciting, extra-geeky content you need to:

• Subscribe to the technical-only feed (an ignore the occasional cross posting).

or

• Subscribe to the everything feed (and unsubscribe from this feed)

The technical content looks like this.

If you are interested in why I’ve done this then read on, otherwise, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy/ignore the new content!

Background

One of the reasons I blogged so intermittently in the past is I was never clear what my audience was. I didn’t want to aliente the few readers I had by suddenly writing about geeky stuff like programming, operating systems, IT security and mobile phones when previously I’d been writing about the environment, sustainability, music and things that make me laugh. I always ended up thinking that people wouldn’t be interested in some topics and, having no where to write them, I would just never bother to post.

Some people have multiple blogs to solve this problem but I feel that sometimes an overlap between the things that interest me and I want to easily cross post to one blog. Maybe I’ll live to regret this change, but as of now I have two categories of posting on this site, Technical and General.

The technical content is intended for technology professionals and geeks. It’s mainly a new audience and I’m looking forward to writing about another area of interest. Technical articles won’t shown on the front page and aren’t included in the existing feed that I’ve had for many years. I hope this works out.

General articles includes everything I’ve previously written. Hopefully this content will appeal to a wider audience of non-geeks and I’ll feel freer to write about more general subjects. My key requirement is to be able to write about environmental stories on the front page and not have them lost in a load of geeky stuff.