Happy New Year, Changing Gears?

Happy New Year to everyone out there. Of course, this message is probably 3 days late by many standards, but oh well.

A year's gone by since I started blogging here at SocialTwister and the experience has been tremendous in many ways. I've learned all kinds of things about a wide array of technologies, I've designed and developed my own social networking system which never seems good enough to release, and I've met hundreds of new people in real life and online.

On that note, I've noticed my own interests going more and more away from what I used to be doing, in terms of this blog. For the past few weeks, I have been working quite heavily on my Beercasting/Sparkcasting/Podcasting ideas and it's been a interesting ride to say the least. Looking back to where I was a year ago, I feel the same level of excitement and committment to Podcasting as I was feeling to Blogging and Social Media at large when I started.

That's created somewhat of a dilemma for me. Lately, I've been trying to stay "on topic" for this blog but keep getting dragged into my other domain now. I can't tell if it's bothering people that I have made this partial switch, but I'd like to figure that out pretty soon.

What this all means is that I am considering making the shift here at SocialTwister from covering the wide base of Social Media to instead covering Podcasting and the other forms of emerging multimedia. Stowe's been on me for some time to blog more with Corante and I might be inclined to push most of what used to be the daily grind here over to GetReal (when appropriate).

Though it's maybe not the best thing for the people that read it now, it's what seems right to me on too many levels. I started SocialTwister as a place to do my research publicly and the generate ideas. For me, making this switch keeps me true to that initiative.

What do you all think? Does it matter at all? Hello? Is anyone out there?