A Decade of Blogging

March 26, 2010 at 11:51 pm · Filed under Me

This site was born in the spring of 2001, when I traded College Ave. in New Brunswick, N.J., for College Ave. in Oakland in an attempt to fast-track my journalism career. But my blogging effort actually began a year earlier, with a site I’ve tried to keep completely separate from this one, with mixed success. Why bother, especially when Google is such an unforgiving gossip? I guess I figured it was better to have a personal blog that did not in any way ‘taint’ my professional site, but it’s become increasingly bizarre to maintain the wall between the two. It’s been like having two close friends who, despite being in my life for 10 years, never have met.

Well, tjdegroat.com, meet vignette.org, once an old-school blog I updated as many as a dozen times a day (a la Twitter) and now a place where I occasionally share personal videos and photos but more often stick to discussing travel (next up: 5 weeks in Buenos Aires) and language learning. I’ve often thought about shutting down that space and moving everything over here, but for now I plan to stick with the distinct properties … although now we all can hang out together.

In other news, I recently spoke to friend Matt Baume about freelancing and I’ve been spending more time putting together posts for the Digg blogs, which you can check out here.

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