Just wanted to thank Ivan Pope and David Berkowitz for being kind enough to bring some attention to the Widget Standards Wiki. Both of these guys are top notch web guys, and if you’re not reading their blogs, you should be.

I’ve decided that now is the time for me to finally have a full on, “this is what I think” blog. I’ve blogged before on the myRT Blog, and I do an occasional Twit, and I’ve done some fiction-based blogging in the past as well (long since taken down), and I’m going to start blogging again for my new position in SF, but I think that I’ve finally reached the point where I should be doing a catch all blog. A week from today I’ll be living in the Bay Area for the first time and I’ve heard that it’s a county statute that tech workers have their own blog, so I probably better get on it.
I know that it would be a much better exercise in SEO if I did a blog on one specific topic, completely rich in keywords and focused, focused, focused, and if I was planning on making a living at it, that’s certainly what I would do – but I’m not doing this for money. There are a variety of reasons why I want a place to bring all of my interests together on my own terms, but money is certainly not one of them.
So here’s what I’m hoping to blog about on as frequent a basis as I see fit:

• Web 2.0, social media, GIS, widgets, online video and internet marketing
• China (real specific, I know)
• Rock climbing
• Writing
• Chess
• Family
• Politics
• Climate Change
• Movies

I figure that if I’m going to talk about everything, I might as well talk about everything. It’s ridiculous of course. It probably won’t work and I wouldn’t recommend anyone to start a blog with the intention of trying to cover even a quarter of these topics, but we rarely heed our own advice, even regarding the most important of life’s decisions, and starting a blog certainly does not fall under that category, so here goes nothing.