While I'm on the subject of former Syzygians, it seems that Irakli West is starting up a new venture, TRND, The Real Network Dialog (all in Deutsch, unfortunately for us non-German speakers). He describes it as a Web 2.0 based word of mouth marketing system, similar to bzzagent. He's also got one of Germany's top blogs, about Firefighting. Cool stuff, or at least I assume it is.

Fellow ex-Syzygian Iain Tait has been blogging for a month now. Iain's a smart guy who's a Creative Director at Poke, and it's fun for me to read what an old friend thinks about things going on today. He's mainly posting on technical/business trends, things like Web 2.0, and he's got a keen eye for quirky new gadgets and toys. So far Iain has been keeping up a good blogging pace, with frequent posts that are tight and to the point.

Brief posts are really the classic weblog style, and obviously makes it easier to keep the posts flowing. Personally I have a very difficult time writing short posts. Even when I start with a small, simple concept I want to post about, I tend to ramble on. Like starting a post about a friend's new blog, and carrying it on into a discussion of weblog posting styles. The result is I post a long, incoherent screed or two every few months.

Gotta work on that.

Update: Iain protests that he's not a Design Director, pointing to his blog's design as evidence.

Just stumbled across the weblog of an old friend, Chris Larson. Hi Chris!

This branch of my site is now officially a Java Blog, with a listing on Mike "The Rebelutionary"'s list of Java-oriented blogs. It's kind of weird to see kief.com listed as a blog - I've had this site for five years, and it was never a blog, just a few stale pages where my family could see what I was up to 9 months ago. Once I set up Movable Type to manage the pages, I just fell into blogging, and now there are actually a handful of people reading the site and linking it from other sites. Cool!

Of course I don't consider this to be a pure Java blog, Java is just one of the things I'm into. But if the multi-blogger is a Java Blogger, why not me?

Thanks Mike! I'm putting the new java.blog button in my sidebar - btw Mike, where's yours? ;)

Are there any Unix blogs out there? There has been a boom in Java blogs lately, but there don't seem to be any specifically on Unix. I guess most Unix geeks with blogs have a wider focus. This section of my site is mostly filled with Unix stuff because that's where my head is right now, but I don't see it as a Unix blog.