Name Blog: Yes, I'm Going to Do It

[hrj]

So I thought some more about starting a blog of amusing observations and essays about (mostly modern) naming trends. And I thought about starting up a new blog for it on some place like blogspot or the like. And then I thought, "I've got a perfectly good blog here on LiveJournal and I'm more and more saving it for essays (and putting the chit-chat on Facebook instead) so it makes more sense just to do it here." But I also want to store the essays somewhere I have complete control over -- i.e., my website. So here's how it's going to work. I'll post the name blogs here on LJ so people can comment and discuss if they want (and also for better publicity), but I'll also post them on my website for the permanent record. Depending on storage space, some of the essays may end up being teasers with a pointer to the website version. (For example, the one I'm about to post has a number of short embedded videos and I'm not sure of the logistics of doing so here.)

So the first (well, actually the second -- because I already posted the LaTrina rant and essay) will be an extended discussion of the recent fashion for boys' names that rhyme with Aidan. I started writing this several years ago but updated it for the more recent data and finished up all the graphs and trend-videos and whatnot. I've never embedded a video before! It'll be going up in five parts, of which the last is still in progress, so it'll come a little later.

Comments

[lferion]

Cool! This is really fascinating.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Putting the essays on LJ makes a lot of sense because you have a pre-existing audience. If they went on a separate blog, I would probably end up meaning to visit but never quite making it. :)

[hyperparasitoid.livejournal.com]

The reason not to do it on LJ is that it doesn't publish an RSS feed, which makes it a lot harder to expand your audience past your pre-existing readership.