The Josh Fruhlinger Experience

There are few things I intended to do less than become some sort of mega-blogger posting things on the Internets all the time. Yet here I am, about to start what appears to be, Christ, the fourth blog for which I’m totally responsible. Why on earth would any sane person be doing this?

Well, in some ways the seeds were planted while I was working on one of the blogs-for-hire I write, for ITworld.com. It started earlier this month, when I wondered if rumors that Mac laptops would soon be available with high-speed cellular modems built in were really such a good idea, since they’d require people who probably already have a cell phone to shell out for another monthly fee on their wireless bill. As events transpired over the next week, the post I’d already written put me in the frame of mind to to muse (hopefully) interestingly about the coming end of flat-fee broadband data and why wireless networks are already in trouble.

What struck me writing this series of posts was that, while all three could stand alone, each helped me think more cogently about the next. I realized that just the process of having a stream of discrete posts was an aid to synthesis, a help to getting at bigger themes. It occurred to me that it would be nice to have a place where I could do that for all the disparate thoughts I have — both those that end up on my (very different) blogs and those that right now just sort of rattle around my own head and then die. I’m thinking that if I can make that larger synthesis with some of these ideas, I can spin them off into other writing projects (not blogs, I dearly hope).

Of course, this blog will also be the personal blog I didn’t have before, where I can plug the various things I do (like, say, interesting posts on my Mac blog — SEE WHAT I DID THERE?), announce exciting Josh Fruhlinger-related events, share my uninformed political ideas, blather on about local and national entertainment of which I am fond, and, of course, post pictures of my cat. Sometimes, I hope, it will be funnier than this post. I can’t promise to update on a daily schedule, so you’ll probably want subscribe to the RSS feed. I hope you’ll stick around.