A Question For The Audience

[mik3cap]

Lately I have been wondering about the usefulness of my own journal, and to what purposes I want to put it.

I'm going to replace daily journaling of the events in my life with a life wiki. I still have my personal web site, and I'm going to keep maintaining that. I'm going to keep my LJ account, because I still want to be able to reply to and read other people's posts.

LJ still gives me a controlled public forum, which is nice. I'd still like to have an outlet for my creative writing, and I think I may keep publishing works here. It's just that it seems like I'm not using my journal for much these days, and I'd rather leverage the capabilities of a wiki to add more context to journaling my life.

So - what do you, my audience, think about this? I've said previously that this journal is mainly for me, but I know you all read it and you should have some say in what you've got to read. I might even figure out a way to make an RSS feed from the wiki or something if you still would rather just read daily life related stuff here on LJ, but these days I'm more interested in making a contextual chronicle of my past.

Comments

[brainiac69.livejournal.com]

I would be sad, as I doubt I'd read your wiki with any regularity...not for lack of interest but it'd just be another web-thing to manage. Wil Wheaton gets less of my love these days...I no longer read slashdot...even CNN gets less time.

As much as I dislike LJ, I read it relatively frequently and enjoy being at least marginally in touch with what you're up to. But, if you're set on going to wiki please let me know what the address is. And if you've got anything timely to say (ie. I'll be in Worcester tonight) post it to LJ...or just send me an email. :-)

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

I'll seriously look into doing an RSS thing and link it into LJ. I'd actually like to gradually move towards an RSS feed of some kind anyways because it'll be reachable via more outlets than just LJ. I'll probably get a second account just for wiki posts or something too.

I'm with braniiac...

[drama-kween.livejournal.com]

Unless it's on LJ, I doubt I'd read it. LJ is a convenient place to keep up with my friends in one spot.

[gower.livejournal.com]

I'm flexible. I like to read your journal to know what you're up to, but in particular, I like your writing. If your LJ contains your creative writing, I'd be happy.

[pixiesnakes.livejournal.com]

a wiki is such a cute idea, but I don't know if I would have the time and patience to read something that doesn't come up on my friends list. Perhaps you could post to LJ something like, "Today I updated my wiki with x,y,z. Check it out at htttp://"

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Mainly I want to construct a timeline of my life... put up photos, all that. I'm going to have my family edit it and fill in gaps for me too.