Getting into the swing - and challenges - of blogging

What with this blog, adding a few posts to blogs I had started, and setting up some new ones, I am getting more comfortable with this medium, especially now that I have begun to use technorati.com as a base from which to organize and classify the various blogs.

As you can see from the growing list of related blogs - see the sidebar to the left - I am not yet sure how my approach of creating multiple blogs will fare compared to an alternative approach of consolidating all my blogging on a single space, however, at least for the time being, I will continue to use this approach.

Part of the challenge is the breadth and scope of issues and processes that fall under the overall aegis of information ecology - a challenge that I also face in managing and developing the broad range of domains that are part of the network of Information Habitat, Seasons of Peace, Gaia University, et al.

I also face the challenge of finding a balance between a modus operandi for blogging, and the very different type of focus that is called for in database development - where I face not only the need to focus on a reasonable degree of completion of the compilation of hyperlinked UN documents in preparation for the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations - but also of rebuilding some of the database-generated pages that had been built on habitat.igc.org - to which I don't currently have access.

There is also an urgency to the challenge given the critical condition of my finances, as I am unable to re-register domains that are expiring, and have received a past due notice from Earthlink ...

While I have no end of what appear to be promising ideas for support / partnerships that could provide the resources I need not just to keep going but to allow many of the projects to move into a much more substantial scale of operation, I have been reluctant to reach out to potential partners given both the incomplete state of many of the initiatives and the current inaccessiblity of key links, as well as the fact that = especially with compiling the body of UN documents - it has been easier for me to concentrate on the nuts and bolts gathering and organizing the documents and tinkering with the database than on developing home pages that could provide a suitable entry point for potential partners.