Announcing Leon’s New Weblog

Some changes are afoot at Submit Response.

Way back in the year 2001, when I signed up for a Blogspot-​hosted Blog­ger account, the plan was to make a com­mu­nity weblog for folk post­ing to Optimo Echa­tio, the mes­sage board for the famous and fab­u­lous Optimo night­club. Since we were all already trad­ing links to cool stuff on the web, and dis­cussing them, and I’d been read­ing weblogs for a year or two, it seemed like a fan­tas­tic plan. Unfor­tu­nately (or for­tu­nately?) none of my inter­net gang agreed, and after a flurry of posts from a couple of Echa­tio users, this place set­tled down to being a three-​person weblog, with XXX, Leon and myself post­ing for each other’s ben­e­fit. Over time, XXX drifted off, briefly keep­ing a weblog of her own, and then, a year or so ago, Leon found him­self in full-​time employ­ment with no desire to write words here after a hard day of writ­ing words at work. (Oh, and at some point along the line Donny joined us, for one post only!)

So, after a time, it felt to me - and most read­ers, I sus­pect - that for better or worse Submit Response had become my weblog (mine I tells you, all mine!).

With that in mind, I’ve set Leon up with a place of his own. (It has a silly name for now, while Leon wracks his brains for a snappy title.)

To Leon: Get your blog on! To every­one else, get read­ing, or sub­scribe - as you can see from the two entries I’ve cross-​posted from this site, it might just be that high-​quality, UK-​based left-​wing polit­i­cal weblog we’ve all been wait­ing for. Or it might be some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent. You never know how these weblog things will turn out, as the above demonstrates.

Oh, and this should be the kick up the arse I needed to get on with migrat­ing to Word­Press, reor­gan­is­ing the sprawl­ing mess this site has become, and having a crack at making the place look, in the words of one loyal reader, ‘less like a fuck­ing till receipt’!

It was: you can watch me wran­gling with Word­Press and a new design here

Posted at 1pm on 22/07/04 by Jack Mottram to the site news category.
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