State of the Blog

Over 170 published posts now, with several more articles in progress. Over 3000 page views in March. We have some shows coming up soon, along with other springtime activities, so posting may slow down a bit. On the other hand, you never know what interesting items may turn up for a quick profile.

Return of the blog

During the last few months we tried moving our pen blogging over to our Facebook page. While it made our posts more visible to the many people on Facebook, it has also been frustrating. Facebook keeps on changing what it's trying to be (the Timeline, for example, aiming to turn users' pages into personal scrapbooks), but none of the changes seem to be making it any more suitable as a blogging platform. Adding and organizing pictures is a nightmare, there's no way to link from one post back to another, and embedding links of any kind is very restricted. Not to mention all of our friends who have been shut out from commenting because they don't want to sign up for Facebook.

So we will be bringing our main blogging efforts back here, though we will continue to post links back to the blog on our Facebook page for those who want to follow us that way. Most of our recent Facebook posts have already been copied back here, in most cases in expanded form. The rest should make it over in the next several days. "Like" us on Facebook, but the real action will be over here!

Pen News bloggified

It's long overdue, but we've finally taken the step of replacing our old and all too infrequently updated Pen News page with a blog-format upgrade. We'll be tweaking the look and feel of the new Pen News as time permits; in any event, it should enable us to post more easily and more often, and for readers to comment.

For now we have set up automatic redirection from the old Pen News address, but we will soon be updating all of our site links, and if you have the old page bookmarked, you will want to update that link too.