A Funny Thing Happened

Tuesday Night, I participated in a live blog of the election results over at Buckeye State Blog and a funny thing happened.

I had fun!

In the midst of all the conversation, BSB's Modern Esquire inquired as to the status of my promised re-launch and re-design of this blog. He deserves an answer, as does everyone else who has asked me about it.

After using BSB's Drupal platform for over a year, it didn't take me long to become dissatisfied with the restrictions of Blogger. I began contemplating switching to WordPress, which would give me much greater control over the layout and design of the blog. However, switching to WordPress would involve finding a hosting provider, installing WordPress, exporting all of this blog's content into the new format, redirecting the domain name, etc. This is a fair amount of work and quite frankly I just haven't been motivated to do it, because with all the recriminations that have gone on this year I just lost the desire to blog for a good long time.

Now, however, I hope to get all this done before the end of the month.

What to Expect Here

Those of you familiar with my writing from the 11 months or so I spent co-editing BSB with Dave Potts will see some changes now that I've moved over to running my own blog. BSB is more of a community site, a la Daily Kos, whereas Blue Ohio will be modeled on Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight.com, with in depth deep dives into certain issues important in Ohio as well as coverage of certain political events. 

You can expect less frequent posting, but longer posts. You can expect a handful of front page contributors. You can expect me to be out and about using my camera and Flip video device. And, I hope you'll visit frequently!