I’m always giving my friend Carol Marks good-natured grief for reinventing herself so often with new blogs and foci. Well, in her defense, she’s settled down and begun the best blog of her career, in my view. Also I’m not entirely without guilt in this department. While I actively blog here at BoWilliams.com and at Rocket City Mom, I’ve regularly blogged at four other places in the past:
- I did my first blogging at NewDietDewIsYucky.com (though I didn’t call it blogging at the time). PepsiCo changed the formula of Diet Mountain Dew, and this site was my effort to get them to change it back (or make the old formula concurrently available). It’s archived here. I think a lot of it is funny, though it’s hard for me to tell how it would read without the context of the time (which, obviously, I have). I last posted there in July 2006.
- I had a good idea for a blog called Cowl Shake that would be where I published all of my automotive thoughts. I started it in March 2007, and gave up on it about a year and a half later. I had interest, and I think I designed a decent space for myself. I just didn’t have the stamina for such a narrow focus. I think I wrote some good stuff out there, though. Check it out. I last posted there in August 2008.
- I blogged at al.com on Alabama football for the 2009 season. It was fun, and I put a lot of effort into it, but it wasn’t what it was sold to me as. I was one of 8-10 writers on the same blog. The way it sounded, all the way up until I was live, was that it would be my blog. So, it was harder to sustain my enthusiasm than I anticipated, and I don’t think al.com had much of a plan for it post-launch. It looks like it petered out just before the 2011 season. (For all I know my credentials are still good and I could go post there right now.) I last posted there in July 2010.
- I’m proud of what I wrote for Tennessee Valley Moms Network. I also got on Rocket City Mom‘s radar there, so I’m grateful for that. I last posted there in March 2013.
So there you have them: a few discursive ghost towns of mine.
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