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Announcing The Gameshelf Blog, a new community of intelligent-if-eclectic game news and discussion. I hope that it will fill out the long and dreary spaces between new Gameshelf episodes with interesting game-related tidbits that share the show's spirit.

I've invited everyone whose name has appeared in an episode's credit roll to join the site as a contributor. I went by memory so it's entirely possible I overlooked you (or your mail client ate the invitation as spam); if that's the case, and you want to help, please contact me!

Yes, it's the same URL that the show has held for years. I quietly replaced the static site with blog software a few months ago, and more recently redesigned it so that a link to the most recent episode will always appear at the top. The blog and the episode videos have separate RSS feeds, too. (Rather, one's a subset of the other.)

I have been blogging since early 2001, initially on jmac.org using software I wrote myself, and moving over to LiveJournal not long after. 

Several factors have conspired this year to encourage me to carry my blog back to my own domain. Not least among these is my renewed appreciation for Movable Type, the blogging software that released a lovely new version this year. I learned the ropes with MT when setting up The Gameshelf's website last month, and quickly became a fan.
This is a personal journal of the sort I call a ham-sandwich blog: topics range from sincere attempts at engaging public interest, to announcements and discussions of recent personal and professional projects, to entirely trivial discourses as to what I had for lunch. I tag all writing with gusto, so (once I build up some momentum) please avail yourself of the tag cloud to find more interesting topics. 

(Leftover sausage and potatoes, incidentally.)

Right now, the visual theme of this blog is one of Moveable Type's defaults, based on the Boston skyline. (Don't ask me why some swan boats appear to have broken free of the Public Garden to toodle around on the Charles, but it's nice they're included.)

Thanks for reading, and enjoy your stay!

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