Partially as a result of the complete insanity of the 2008 campaigns, I’ve been feeling like dusting off exjournalist.com (purchased in a moment of opportunity and rage at the state of the American press corps) and really getting into the mix. 

I have spent a good long while this past year trying to consolidate my online presence, though, and the idea of sprouting a brand new blog just for politics really did not sound appealing. I had a number of discussions about it, asked a number of people, and spent longer than I’m comfortable admitting debating it with myself, and have decided to simply do one blog with different categories, and go out of my way to make sure that if you’re not into new media articles, you can avoid those. Or, if you like those but can’t stand my constant berating of the press, you can have your tastes accomodated. 

What was most important to me was making the damn thing easy to write in, or else there’s just no content at all – which has been the case since roughly 2004.

After going 12 rounds with WordPress MU, and emerging battered against its rope-a-dope strategy, I was nonetheless victorious.

I have no idea why, but I really wanted to be able to announce this new thing in triumph on a clean day, like October 1st.

So here it is, October 1st, and that’s what I’m doing. This is the first entry published in the Politics category, mapped to Exjournalist.com. New media articles will be mapped to CorrugatedMedia.com, and we’ll see what else we get.