Confessions of a Broken Web Venue

I think I hit a realization point this week that one reason that I tend to underplay here for not posting as much recently (not having to do with work I have to do without thinking about Ashlee Simpson's New Album and What It Means) is that I post other places, a bunch of which are part of the LiveJournal network. The Bedbugs Livejournal is here.

It's helpful for working out ideas with friends, and I try not to talk about anything there that I would want shared with the rest of the world. I've been posting there for a little over a year, and I don't think I've ever vented in a way that wasn't available, perhaps in a more, er, publishable form, somewhere else.

I reacted there to this post impulsively because it linked sarcastically to Bedbugs (it's as of now the only place I've seen that's gotten the Soulja Boy dance into an academic conference), and kept it public without really thinking about the differences between LJ brainstorming/spleen-venting and more public/less insular brainstorming/spleen-venting. But I'm starting to use that distinction as a crutch NOT to have as much public brainstorming and spleen-venting. So in an effort to crank up the transparency a notch, I'm getting my thoughts down in a public venue -- basically, I need to bring some spleen back to Bedbugs so that I'm not half-forming a bunch of ideas that I'll never return to (where no one can see them).

Don't want to make this seem too conspiratorial: the vast majority of my non-public LJ posts are about off-line projects and family vacations and stuff about how my girlfriend is awesome. But with a format like LiveJournal, where transparency is implicitly at issue just in the nature of the venue itself, it's way too easy to assume the worst (and I'm about as paranoid as they come about this kind of stuff without literally having some kind of pathological disorder). I want the worst to happen here instead, as has been the usual practice for quite some time now.

(This isn't a "posting renaissance" thing, either; I really do post less because of other time commitments for the most part. But it felt like something that needed to be addressed. And anyway, the comments, as always, are a great place for conspiracies, spats, and otherwise ignorable content to develop.)