Finally configured Disqus, so the posts are now commentable.

It’s been three months since the last update, but I have a two-part post on SaaS/IaaS impedance mismatch in the queue, so stay tuned.

I have to admit that blogging regularly is harder than I imagined. My impression was that by putting myself into an “intermediate” format (not exactly Twitter, not exactly a full-featured blog) it will be easier just to write stuff that matters for me. However, the net outcome is that unlike on Twitter, I still worry too much about whether the stuff I write will be interesting to the subscribers.

Well, I know this is silly, but help me out there. What would you personally prefer to see here? Links to the new pieces of technology I stumble upon here and there? Proceedings from our product development? Philosophical ramblings about system design and the nature of computing? Reflections on career development? Expat’s impressions about the life in the Valley? Pictures of kittens and puppies? (Screw that last one, I don’t have any.)

Respond here, tweet to @graven, send me an email, give a call or whatever you feel is easier. This is pretty important to me, so take this one seriously, will you?

Dear friends,

A while ago I decided to re-think my “social media strategy”. Today I got LJ, Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Tumblr, Flickr and a number of other services I rarely use. This armada is tiresome and impossible to manage. I want to cut down on the communication channels and find a way to use them more efficiently. Here are the first few steps I intend to make.

• Tumblr will become the primary blogging medium. It is perfectly enough for small posts, and I do not do long ones anyway. It will even get its own place on stanklimoff.com, for now as a sub-section live. Thanks for subscribing.
• Twitter will act as an auxiliary channel, primarily for RT and one-liners.
• All private posts will remain in Russian and will be published to a restricted circle of friends on Facebook.
• LJ will remain read-only, I may even want to change my account to openID for that purpose.
• FriendFeed’s destiny is TBD. Right now it’s no more than a dump.

Gonna be fun. Stay tuned.