From now on, instead of commenting on stuff I read at websites directly at those websites, I’ll be commenting here. So this entry will be basically a list — a web-based “log,” if you will — of links, with added commentary.

I ‘ve been pretty quiet for the past couple of weeks, because I’ve been working on a new weblog. Yeah, I know: another weblog. But this is something that’s near and dear to my heart, and the subject I’ve been feeling most passionate about of late.

Here at Pants McCracky, we’re innovators. We never stop working to advance the field of personal weblogging. For instance, that incredibly annoying thing where individual people refer to themselves in the third person plural? That’s us.

I haven’t read (former Salon editor) Scott Rosenberg’s new history/analysis of weblogging, Say Everything — although I plan to do so as soon as I can make it to a Big Box Bookstore and read it for free while writing snarky notes on subscription cards in Entertainment Weekly. But this morning I came across this Gawker Book Club discussion of the book, and the headline caught my eye: “Was Blogging Just a Fad?” Seeing as how I’m starting up this here brand-spankin’-new weblog and all, the question has some relevance for me.