An earlier version

A couple of early morning thoughts on this last day of January.

• Eric (photo left) exclaimed in an IM yesterday: "Another blog!?" Yes. We're incorporating a blog posting capability in the new burris.com, where I will direct most of my energies soon, but in the meantime too much is being left unsaid. Furthermore, I like to experiment with digital technologies, and the improvements in Google's blogging engine, Blogger, made this revisit to my verbose side tempting.

• This blog, "What am I thinking?", is the latest in my blogging history. First there was the online version of the newsletter I started writing and distributing to clients, prospects and other contacts almost 20 years ago. That was the "Burris Blog." Then came "Golfography," a more photo-driven blog about the "landscapes of golf," where and with whom I played. That was followed by "Golfology," a more shamelessly-driven prospecting tool aimed at marketing decision-makers in the golf business. Next I migrated all three of those blogs to Apple's blogging software in iWeb. It was a different look, a design-driven interface that was fun to work with. Same blog topics, new posts, new look and location. For a bit more than nine months I also tried to keep up with what I called the "Sunday Blog," a communications tool directed to my extended family that was, alas, virtually fruitless in stimulating online conversation.

Then I shut them all off in September 2006. I said I was tired of talking to myself. Very little dialogue, although I must say I would often get positive feedback in conversation. But I wasn't finished experimenting with blogging engines. We tried a WordPress version on a more corporate "Golfology" site. I found it difficult to work with, not as intuitive for me, so I was not as assiduous in keeping it fresh. And in November 2006, after reading an article about companies in the "web 2.0" space, I set up a blog at a site called "Vox" (here). I struggled to figure what to talk about, came up with a topic that I (obviously) still kind of like.

And here we are.

If you are interested in prior posts, check the links at the bottom of this digital page. And for the immediate future, check back here. Who knows what I'll be pondering next?