[revivifying the palaverist]

It has been brought to my attention that I did in fact once have faithful readers, and that they're kind of disappointed that this blog has slowed to the point of nothingness.

So I came rattling back around in here and found that the place had grown a bit musty. For one thing, my about page still had me working at the South Korean Mission to the UN, a habit I gave up back in January of 2008. And the picture was in need of an upgrade. I'm much cagier now.

I've also decided to embrace modern technology — blogs are so early aughts! — by creating a Facebook page where you can become a fan and pick up the feed for this blog. (The Palaverist shall not, however, tweet.)

More than any of that, however, is a renewed interest in actually producing some content. So enough of this meta-content! On to the other kind ...

[μ (sic)]

I've decided to break out my music posts into a new blog, [μ (sic)]. Enjoy.

[still on the new blog tip]

While I'm at it with the more focused blogs, please to enjoy [this is not a sentence], my new grammar blog. Seriously.

[a blog for little scenes]

Inspired by some of the creative and focused bloggers I met last night, I've decided to launch [mind your head], a blog for little vignettes. Enjoy.

[a lack of palaver]

Okay, so I admit it's been quiet around here lately. Partly that's the summer doldrums — who can write when it's five thousand degrees out? — and partly it's that I have actually been pretty busy.

For one thing, I've been trying to get ahead on my Korean studies, because I will inevitably fall behind this fall when the General Assembly committees get going and actual work briefly becomes my primary activity at the office.

And then there's the help I've been giving to Steve Harrison's Congressional campaign. This week I wrote a Social Security speech that he's delivering today, as well as a 60-second fundraising spot that will run nationally on AirAmerica, which is giving discount air time to candidates. I'll be sure to post the speech and the spot once I get final versions, and hopefully I'll get to find out when the ad is running and post the times as well.

[migration]

After a long run at Angelfire, Palaverist is migrating to Blogger. The reasons include Blogger's easier interface and searchability and the wonkiness of Angelfire's comments function.

I don't think this change should have much impact from your perspective as a reader. There are a few quirks to the new layout, but it should work much as the old site did. The posts from the Angelfire period will remain in place over at http://archives.palaverist.org/, while new posts will get archived here.

Please let me know if there are any problems with the new layout or interface. Thanks!