elearnspace

"Lately, I've felt the need to create another (anonymous?) blog where I can spew views/thoughts that are more personal."

You could use Drupal and choose not to post those personal thoughts to the main page, but still share them with others via a category specific feed. Different feeds, different category displays, for serving different needs as a writer. And Drupal could handle all of the documents on the main elearnspace part of your site as well.

Just felt like advocating today :)

Charlie

As I read some weblogs, I feel as though I'm reading the writing of journalists, trained to keep ther personalities out of the writing. This doesn't seem to fit the personal nature of weblogs.

Rather than creating an anonymous weblog, I'd rather see people opening up and showing more facets of who they are.

"Lately, I've felt the need to create another (anonymous?) blog where I can spew views/thoughts that are more personal."

I've been working on setting up a site and blog...and I've struggled with the same question. My work and learning interests are only a small part of who I am. But does including microbrew reviews, political commentary, pet peeves, or stories about my kids destroy the value of the blog? I guess the ratio would be important...but really it comes down to a question of purpose and audience. Why am I writing this stuff, and who cares?

I'd encourage you to include whatever you want in your blog. Readers can always skim it if they're in a hurry, but I agree with Randy -- intelligent information is great, but personality is important too. Maybe you won't get as many general readers, but the ones who do stick around will probably be more engaged.

Jeremy