The last thing that I need right now is another blog. I am already spread too thin as it is between the explodedlibrary.info, ambivalenz.net, my LiveJournal and a private blog for family/friends.
That said, I have convinced myself to try this as an experiment. For starters, this isn't going to be a stand-alone blog like ambivalenz. This is only going to be a supplement to the explodedlibrary.
Here's how I imagine it might work. I might put an extended version of a post from the explodedlibrary here. I might do some research and draft some words on a topic for the explodedlibrary, but never get around to developing it into a full post. Later on, I might dump the research and draft in here.
This is neither a public nor a private blog. I have a robots.txt file to deter the search engines. I will not be mentioning it directly in my other blogs, although I will link to it for extended entries. On the other hand, it's not password protected and it will have an RSS feed.
In this way, I am trying to loosely emulate the way that LiveJournal allows me to write posts which only friends can read. Sometimes I would like to write to a smaller audience - such as the people who might click on an extra link to read more, presumably because they're interested.
I make no promises to update this regularly. I try to write 1 or 2 posts a week in the explodedlibrary. My goal is to update ambivalenz a few times a month. I have no goals or expectations regarding the bunker. Just whenever there's a need.
This blog allows unmoderated commenting (I am doubting that comment spam will be a problem here) but not trackbacks.
This blog is very much a working lab for me. Any document here is subject to be changed and modified in any manner, at any time.