Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

To continue what I was talking about in the student friendly version, or to be more specific, to go on a side track from it, I finally found another reason why someone has to have more than one online journal.

Of course the first one is the one I used: that I have concerns that I want my students to know about, which I believe, should be separate from the issues that I think only teachers should know about, or that the students probably will take the wrong way if they found about or will mercilessly exploit.

Or to put it another way, even though I did not expect it or plan it, I just ended up one day having so much material to discuss that I had to spin it off, because I couldn’t always interrupt my account of my classes to talk about some extracurricular events and be more than a day or two behind in talking about my lectures.

The logger I talked about in the student friendly version of my journal today also has two addresses: one for his daily ramblings and another for his poems, essays and short stories.

So if there was anyone who wanted to look only at his creative efforts, there would be an easy way for them to navigate through them.

Another method would be to use category markers for each entry, so that with one click one can see the listings for all the poems, or all the essays in the whole text site.

That’s also the way, I believe, to present different facets of one person who has several hobbies. Obviously someone who loves travel and watching movies cannot post about both all the time, so he can just have subdivisions in his electronic chronicle. But there would be no need to have separate pages for just movie posts and another for just travel posts, especially if there is no regularly posted content anyway, but is sporadically updated.

After all, if it’s about being read by people who are into the same interests, what’s wrong with presenting them with the whole package of everything that I am?

I, for one, admit to finding some cool stuff on the net I would otherwise never have discovered if I didn’t see them on a tangent post in someone’s web log that I read for something else entirely.

Besides, if there were facts or sentiments that one does not want anyone but a small cadre of acquaintances to know about, that’s what private entries are for. No need to create a whole new site just for “Things Only My Close Friends Who Are Not into Pottery Making Would Care About”.

Session 945’s has three sites none of which he has posted in for months now. Class dismissed.