On diarizing
I used to keep a diary. I think it was for about three or four years. Over a thousand entries in the thing. I stopped that when I stopped needing it so much. I stopped it when I realized that no one would ever really like to read it. I mean, even I didn’t like to read it. Just to write it.
But now that I’m not keeping it anymore, now that I have a real, public-oriented blog, I sometimes miss being able to go on and on about personal things without worrying about boring people. So, I wonder if there’s a way to include that sort of thing on my blog without making people who aren’t really interested read them too. I could put the post under a fold (I wish there were a better term for that—I was trying to google it a while back and had a hell of a time finding what I was looking for), so that people had to click on a link from the main page. With a warning above the fold. And that’s all great, except that the whole post would still show up in my RSS feeds. I don’t want to put a password on it—I want it to be publicly available, but only protected from wandering eyes.
I could start another blog, but that’s excessive, and it would dilute my readership anyway. What would be ideal, I guess, would be to have a separate section of the blog. A category that doesn’t show up in the main feed or the front page. Or maybe an author that gets a separate directory. Maybe another wordpress install? I’d rather avoid that if I can, but it’s one possibility. Maybe I should look up a “main page & feed” hack that lets me make certain posts less visible.
UPDATE: OK, so it was easier to write my own plugin. Here.
