Brian Bommarito’s blog

I think the title pretty much sums it up: Can you truely have too many blogs?

I started thinking about that earlier this evening. With my new job at Six Apart, I have been collecting blogs because I want to help support the company, and maybe do a little advertising of how great the products are. With that being said, I now have 3 different blogs; I have this one, a TypePad blog, and also a Movable Type blog, which I will not mention as there isn't much to it at this moment. This overload of blogs brings up an important question: Which one do I post on?

I have pretty much decided at this point to continue using this blog as my main blog. The reason I decided to go this route is because, to me, Vox has an excellent little community around it, and I think that makes blogging a bit more interesting. You have this little gorup of folks all reading your blog, and sort of growing into a little family which is a very nice advantage to something like Vox versus something like a stand alone site where you may have a group of commenters, but not the sense of community that Vox gives you. Plus, with Vox I don't have to deal with managing the software (I don't mind that aspect of it, but right now I'm fairly busy) and it forces me to keep one blog, so I don't go off and create four or five of them and overwhelm myself.

I may at some point visit TypePad, and see about doing some cross-posting, but for the time being I'm settled here. So, if you are reading this, you should start to see a lot more posts, and content coming out of me in the very near future.

So, I finally jumped on the bandwagon, and signed up for a Twitter account. The problem is I didn't sign-up to actually use it, I signed up mainly to follow a couple of people like Leo Laporte and Dick DeBartolo, but suddenly I'm using it to post my own Tweets.

Want to see what's going on in my life, or want to follow me for some reason? http://www.twitter.com/briandump is the answer to that.

Well, welcome everyone to my new Vox account.

It's funny, Vox has been in existence for a couple of years now, but I have never gotten an account with Vox. I have always been one to run my own servers, and use software on there, etc. However, today an event took place that sort of pushed me to get an account on Vox, and give it a run. That event?

My official offer letter from SixApart was sent to me.

Yes, that's right, I am now an employee of SixApart, and I don't know if I could be more happy about it. I am as of now a telecommuter, and I'm working for the Movabletype Support Team along with a couple of other very excellent individuals. My official start date is Monday the 12th of May, and I cannot wait to get started.

It's funny, this almost didn't happen. I had just graduated college with a third degree (Or rather graduated a couple of months ago). I had had a job with a company in my state for a month or so, but ended up having to have my knee replaced from an existing injury, and had to quit the job because me being gone a month when I just started would have been unfair to the company.

As soon as I got back onto my feet, I started looking for a job again. Now, I did the usual stuff, check Craigslist, check the papers etc, but really wasn't getting much response back, nor was I finding anything of interest. Well, then I was getting a bit desperate, so I started to send resumes to dream companies. Companies like Google, Apple, Digg, and SixApart, which was a dream company for me. I actually get contacted back by SixApart, and well...some time later, I get the offer.

What does this mean? Well, you will be seeing me hanging about in the Movabletype forums, probably both on the opensource side, and on the commercial side, and if you happen to have a support contract with them, and you send a support request, you may just get to talk with me.

I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank SixApart for making the whole process a pure pleasure, and I will see you all, metaphorically speaking, on Monday.