When I set up this blog, I intended to focus on issues to do with community involvement in regeneration and to a lesser degree on urban design matters - hence the tag line of 'People Places and what makes them interesting'. In practice it hasn't worked out that way and I have tended to cover the 'anything else that catches my eye' part instead. I'm still not sure if that is good or bad. I'm writing about the things that interest me, which is obviously good, but so far I don't have a strong focus for my writing.
An important part of blogging for me is the idea of dialogue. That hasn't happened here, although I know from the referral logs that there are a number of regular readers. At least once I've been accused of looking for a fight, which says more about the inability of the commenter in question to understand the difference between argument and conflict than it does about my intentions then or now.
As it has panned out in practice, the blog seems to have reached a bit of a dead end and I'm not sure where to go next. There are too many political opinion blogs for me to want to add another and that isn't my forte anyway. I still have many interests from photography to philosophy. I'm strongly committed to - and involved with local democracy. By this I mean communities taking control of their own futures not simply local government. I still find the extreme individualism of the right libertarians distasteful and frightening in their blinkered view of the world and I want to explore the left alternative.
I could write I'm sure about all of these. What I'm not sure about is whether I should, or assuming I do if it should be through a more or less daily blog. Even short pieces take time to prepare and while I could write longer pieces at less frequent intervals I know from the logs that after a couple of days off, the numbers visiting plummet - and they are not huge in the first place.
It would help me to hear from you - either in comments or via e-mail.
