12.29.03

For a little more than a year, I've kept a blog over at Xanga. I started it on a whim out of boredom one day and it ended up being the first online site that I kept up updating. As an intro to blogging, Xanga definitely did the job. It's a limited, but it works well for simple updates.

Now that I've decided to use Movable Type to manage the content of my new website, I've been tempted to use MT as my actual blog. After all, I have much more control over the layout and content than I do with Xanga. The problem is, if I exclusively blog here, I'll lose the huge built-in audience that comes with Xanga. I'm pretty sure that many of the people who come to my Xanga site now probably wouldn't come to this site. For me, if someone leaves Xanga for another site or blog, I get lazy and don't go to their new site. It's so much easier to just check only the sites on Xanga when you are using Xanga.

The solution I've decided on is to duplicate my Xanga entries over here. It's not the optimal solution, but it's a good compromise. Another benefit of doing this is that I get my Xanga entries archived. If I want to post something that I don't necessarily want on Xanga, I can just post it here. For each entry that I copied from Xanga, I'll also add the original Xanga entry link. I'll probably add the urban.rice permalink on the Xanga entry.

Well, that's the plan on how I'm gonna operate my different journals. I guess we'll find out how that works out.