{"id":2779,"date":"2003-01-12T10:35:25","date_gmt":"2003-01-12T10:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2003-01-12T10:35:25","modified_gmt":"2003-01-12T10:35:25","slug":"blog-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2779","title":{"rendered":"BLOG NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

So about this whole blogging thing.
\nI\u0092m obviously addicted (as many of you have doubtless noticed, it\u0092s this decade\u0092s version of crack). It seems that a lot of bloggers go through the initial rush phase, then realize that it\u0092s incredibly time- and energy- consuming, and that it somehow doesn\u0092t allow them to quit their day jobs, so a lot of things suffer, and they come to a crisis.
\nIn my case, it\u0092s mostly sleep and my home life. I have a sleep deficit that would kill a bear; a list of household chores that\u0092s growing geometrically, and a significant other who is thumbing the pages of Lysistrata<\/I> while casting meaningful looks my way.
\nPlus, to be honest, I don\u0092t feel like I\u0092m doing as good a job blogging as I\u0092d like to. I\u0092m not thinking things through, or taking the time to do a little more research. I\u0092ve been working on a piece on bureaucracy and another on democracy and neither is moving along too well.
\nI\u0092d like to do fewer, better posts, interspersed with a bit of day-to-day fluff. But in reality, I\u0092m not a significant enough figure to hold even the small audience I\u0092ve got doing that, which means I\u0092d lose the interactions via email and comments that mean a lot to me.
\nSo here\u0092s what I\u0092d like to try.
\nJoe Katzman is moving his blog<\/a> (currently Winds of Change, although I\u0092m lobbying for a new name) to a group blog format, and has been kind enough to invite me to be the token liberal. I have a ton of respect for him, and am deeply honored that he\u0092d ask me.
\nHe and I see many things in much the same way: We are both concerned about finding a path through the Islamist hatred of the West; and we see technological changes as both presenting serious threats to us and opening new doors to promising futures.
\nHe and some of the other contributors are more warlike than I am, a lot more conservative, and he\u0092s a religious Jew and I\u0092m neither. It may well be that the \u0091inner liberal\u0092 who has been hidden under my frustrated criticism of contemporary Democratic liberalism will be forced to come out, which I think would be kind of a good thing. Or I\u0092ll get pulled to the Dark Side of conservatism, in which case, I trust that Ann<\/a> and Kevin<\/a> will undertake a quest and mount an expedition to come rescue me.
\nBut I\u0092d like to give it a try. I\u0092ll do my first post for the new site sometime late next week, and will keep this site alive as an archive, possibly as a place to do one or two lightweight things, and as a place to come home to should I choose to do that.
\nI\u0092m interested in people\u0092s reactions; what do you think of this? To quote self-proclaimed non-pedophile Pete Townsend, I really want to know\u0085<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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