The Return to Freespace

I’ve decided to revive my own blog, Freespace, and to leave Positive Liberty, where I’ve been blogging for two years. There are a couple reasons for this.

First, the PL experiment was intended to combine the efforts of four of us into a single blog. Ed Brayton was the most popular of us, and it was our thought that he would draw a lot of traffic, but shortly after PL began as a foursome, Brayton got his contract with Science Blogs, and his posting at PL fell off almost entirely. That’s certainly not a bad thing, but it did mean the PL experiment didn’t quite go as planned. Meanwhile, Jonathan Rowe maintained his personal blog and for whatever reason, whenever the big blogs like Andrew Sullivan would link to him, they’d link to his personal blog, and not to PL. Why? I have no idea.

Kuznicki and I, meanwhile, are obviously not on the same page about the war. I will blog about this shortly, but the point is that I have never enjoyed blogs where the writers are arguing with each other. Where the writers of different blogs disagree, that’s always seemed more readable to me. But the point-counterpoint thing just never agreed with my tastes. And as a result, I would usually stifle myself about the war. If I disagreed with something Kuznicki said, I usually said nothing, and I avoided blogging about the war myself, so as not to start an argument. Again, maybe that strikes some folks as strange, but it’s just the way I prefer to write.

Given these things, I thought it best to return to Freespace. I’ll have a post on the proximate cause of the division—Kuznicki’s recent response to my post about the Thomas Friedman article—shortly. In the meantime, welcome back.