My new blog in Swedish is now up and running. CLICK CLICK CLICK!

Read more about my decision to start a secondary blog in Swedish here.

I’ve used the internet since I was 13, back in 1996. I’ve had my own site and internet journals, both on my site and elsewhere, since 2000. I call it internet journals because back then that’s what blogs were called.

Between 1999 and 2005 I had internet journals written in Swedish at three Swedish online communities; Lunarstorm, Skunk and Helgon. First at Lunarstorm, then at Skunk and Helgon simultaneously (same entries posted at both places) and then only at Helgon. I also had a journal written in English at Livejournal during 2004-2005.

I’ve had a personal website since 2000 and in 2005 I decided to start blogging on my own site rather than doing that through online communities. Between 2005 and 2007 I had two sites and blogs, one in Swedish and one in English, both on the same domain. In 2007 I discontinued the Swedish part of my site and have since then only kept a site and blog in English. My current blog archive only goes back to 2008 since that’s when I switched blog system to WordPress.

My site and blog hasn’t undergone any big changes in years now because I like my domain and I also like WordPress. In a while I’ll begin another blog though. One in Swedish. Do not worry dear international readers, this will remain my main blog. The new blog will be a secondary one where I’ll most likely write more about the typically Swedish things.

There’s so many things I don’t blog about here since I try to avoid writing about things my international readers can’t relate to. That’s why I want this Swedish blog. A place where I can write about Gudrun Schyman’s comeback into politics. Or the fact that I read about Ebba Hultqvist in the newspaper today and came to think of that TV-series she was in during the late 90s and then came to think about Swedish TV in general during the late 90s. If you’re not Swedish you most likely know nothing about either those people or Swedish TV and that’s the reason I wouldn’t post a blog entry about any of that here. It would be nice to have a place to post such entries though.

So that’s at least the thought I have behind this new blog which will be presented in a few weeks time. I hope you Swedish readers will follow that blog as well. This blog will continue as usual and will be updated just as often as it is now. Nothing will change here.

I have many blog buddies. People who’s blogs I’ve followed for years. People who have followed me for years. It’s amazing to think about. That I’ve known many of you for five years or more and we’ve followed each others lives for so long without ever meeting in real life. It’s a bit sad also. That I know so many interesting people who won’t ever be a part of my circle of friends because you live so far away. It would be awesome to hang out and be real life friends. I would have loved that. Thanks for being part of my online life for so long, all of you amazing blog buddies who I go way back with. Perhaps I get too meet some of you in real life some day.

NO I don’t want to comment your blog to have a chance of becoming “blog of the week”.
NO I don’t want to ask you a question in your “ask me a question” entry. I don’t know you so why should I care?
NO I don’t want to buy stuff from your blog auction.

What is it with Swedish bloggers and their comments advertising themselves in others blogs? That’s called SPAM and it’s rude. Write a comment which has something to do with my blog entry and I might visit your blog but don’t just comment with an ad for your own blog. By doing so you’re making damn sure I’ll never click your link.

I get the feeling that Swedish bloggers rarely uses WordPress but rather seem to prefer simpler blog publishing tools like Blogger or Blogg.se. With that comes limitations when it comes to the layouts. Most Swedish blogs have really god awful boring layouts. Or is it just so that all the international blogs I visit happen to be ran by people who are into web design and that is not what most international blogs look like? The blogosphere is one big sphere consisting many small spheres. Perhaps the sphere I move in and the spheres overlapping that one have unusually many web designers.

Speaking of the blogosphere. Isn’t it interesting that there are these kind of small families in the blog world? For example several of the blogs I read and bloggers I keep in touch with on Facebook are friends with each other. If I look at some of my blogging buddies Facebook profiles we have like five friends in common, even though none of us have ever met IRL and only know each other through blogging. That’s what I meant by the blogosphere consisting of many small spheres. And the one I move in is packed with web designers. Is there such a sphere in the Swedish blog world? Because I seem to have missed it.