I need a local blog (for my community)
I have a website I used to post to for local issues. It was an entirely personal endeavor, though at one point I made a Facebook Group & thought I'd try to organize something. I got too ambitious and crashed out, gave up.
I keep the site alive. Renewed the domain last month. The last post if from August 17th, 2022.
The website is trash, from a coding / user experience standpoint. Visiting it is fine. But publishing requires me to write on my computer, then push to the production server using an SSH key (passwordless login). It's a pain, and makes writing a chore.
I do a lot of advocacy. A lot of it is pretty simple - sent an email to my library's Director tonight because their 'Board Trustees' and 'Board Meetings' pages don't list the time they meet, just the dates. It's a simple thing, and it should be a simple win.
Sometimes, issues are bigger, like last night's.
And anyway, I think I want to start using that site again. Mayyybe.
And while I'm at it, I want to compartmentalize my multiple lives. I have a local public life, an online life (such as this blog), and then a personal life.
I want one email address for each of those lives, to keep things organized. Local orgs I belong to - use the 'local public life' email for that. Same for any advocacy I do.
I guess I'm not sure what my 'online life' email should be for. Maybe I just need to keep 'public' and 'personal' separate and not worry so much about the 'local' vs 'online' aspect.
The local v online gets confusing when I think about emailing my state representatives, or emailing GovTrack.us to add RSS feeds (which they did!!!), or emailing the author of a book I read with an idea I had (sparked by a new book I'm reading). Do those fall into 'online' or 'local'? I don't know. They're both public, and I don't keep my identity a secret, even if I'm not shouting it from the rooftop.
P.S. I have a local journalism website too, but I can only throw credible journalism on that, so it's a whole 'nother beast. That's also been dead for some time.