Things have been pretty quiet on the old blogging front recently. I think this is going to be the way of things, at least for the foreseeable future.

There are a few reasons for this, not least of which is the fact that we both simply have less time these days than we used to. It’s hard to find time to construct an interesting and coherent blog post.

Thinking about what to write has also become more of a challenge. Most of the things that I wanted to say when I started out blogging, I’ve said. I don’t want to re-hash old stuff (even though all the archives are now offline, making doing so much easier!) and I don’t have too many burning issues that I want to publish to the world.

This blog was initially a photoblog, which worked well in the sense that I didn’t permit myself to write a post if I didn’t have a good photo to go with it. Then it morphed into a more traditional blog. Not having to produce a photo should have lowered the barrier to writing, but it hasn’t really worked out that way. If anything, all it has done is led to me blogging less, but also taking a lot less photos than I used to. That’s a shame, because I still really enjoy photography. Again time constraints make it difficult.

Another reason for the reduction in blog postings is that I’m getting my internet publishing fixes more and more from external services. The web has moved on a lot since twosittingducks.com started. Back in the beginning, it was running on a Moveable Type engine which needed a lot of management and fiddling to get it to work. It’s since moved to WordPress, which is a more open and adaptable system, but it’s still a full-blown content management system that needs some effort to maintain, update, patch and so on.

Over the intervening years, though, web applications have become much better. I’m finding that I’m posting a bit at [Jaiku](http://www.jaiku.com) – you can find me at [canion.jaiku.com](http://canion.jaiku.com). This service is a bit like SMS for the web where posts are limited to a small number of characters – making it very simple to fire off a quick snippet. As well as giving you an idea of what I’m doing at certain points of the day, it also aggregates my other activity on the web, including Flickr photos (again, surplanting Two Sitting Ducks as a photoblog), sites I’ve bookmarked through del.icio.us, stories I’ve liked at (http://digg.com) and even posts that are written at Two Sitting Ducks.

Also at my Jaiku you will find a feed of my other mini website that I’ve started recently at (http://andrewcanion.com). This is what they call a tumblelog and again features little snippets of stuff that I find and would like to share. It could be a website, a quote, a picture, who knows? It’s ephemeral and fun and again, much easier and quicker to post than here at Two Sitting Ducks.

If you would like a comprehensive index of my activity on the web, you can always check out [my ClaimID page](http://www.claimid.com/andrewcanion/). This is a good index of all the sites that are directly related to me in some way.

So, as you can see, a single blog/website doesn’t seem to be cutting the mustard as much anymore. I will still keep it, and will post when I see fit, but keep an eye on those other sites to see what’s happening in my world. Subscribe to the RSS feed – it’s the easiest way! Basically, if you hook into the Jaiku account, that will show you all my activity as and when it happens.

Thanks for reading!