Another Blog?
To get this blog started off, I thought I go into a bit of detail about why another blog. I got into blogging on the personal side of things, and have, for the past 3 odd years, maintained a personal blog in some form or another, not at all on the topic of things related to technology or business. I have, of course, maintained the Blogdigger Dev Blog for almost as long, and while I occasionally ventured forth into the topics other than the latest developments of our up and coming search engine, there was always something that, being directly associated with the company, held me back from posting about anything and everything.
Not many folks know much about the inner workings of Blogdigger as a company, mostly because I haven’t shared all that much. While Blogdigger is cash flow positive, we currently employ zero full time people; Mike and I have developed and maintained the site over the past three years on our own time, while employed elsewhere full time. Through a series of events both fortuitous and unpredicted, I am, as of now, full time on Blogdigger, or whatever else it takes to make ends meet, which means consulting and contracting. As such, this blog is meant to act as a presence (man, Presence would be such a good title for a blog…) for me, Greg Gershman, independent of any other entity.
So welcome to my little home. Please spread the word and give me some good initial linkage to get the ball rolling.
One final note on names: I agonize over naming things, probably more than is healthy (although perhaps I should have spent a bit more time on Blogdigger). I wasn’t necessarily looking for a name that referenced me specifically, but that’s what I ended up with. Initially, I was considering some permutation of the word gregarious, which besides consisting of my name, has meanigs relating to being social, but all the obvious domains for that were taken. I finally settled on gregword at the suggestion of my wife. I firmly believe that all good blog names must be a triple entedre, at the least. To wit, gregword is a) something some friends used to call me in college, b) The Word of Greg and c) a Wordpress blog, published by me. That’s all I got.