The Fourth Place

Well I might be back.

Comment moderation was a huge drain on my enthusiasm for blogging in the past but hopefully a move to market leading Word Press will give me access to some kick-ass spam prevention wizardry…. but I have no idea what that might be – yet.

I also doubted the mental healthiness of pouring every frustration out onto the internet regardless of whether anyone was listening and without any regard to whether or not I was making a contribution. I had thought this exercise cathartic, and maybe it is, but perhaps there are better forms of catharsis.

So, what are my goals?

1. Assess Word Press as a platform and get to know it. I first promised to do this for Sonia at Hearts Cafe in Ollantaytambo but that seems a long way away now and she hasn’t been in touch, but I also need to do this for my own commercial purposes.
2. Have an outlet for posing questions and reporting answers in a careful and diplomatic fashion that conforms to my needs, for example, polishing up my contributions to Wikipedia or to Open Source technology projects are things I can put into the public domain that are useful, if only to random users of Google.
3. Have a virtual mental place that is mine, a real fourth place that centralises bookmarks and tools I used regularly and keeps me, my friends and my colleagues updated – without submitting to data rape by Facebook.