Need to reign in blogs

I need to reign in my blogs.  Today I posted what amounts to a review of SolarPHP on my fijiaaron blog.  So it turned into a rant.  And then it turned into a discussion about the idea framework.  I wrote 3000 words, and I wrote them on the wrong blog.  Come to think of it, probably general reviews of Products, thoughts on frameworks, development, etc. don’t belong in this blog either.  Or on the sister blog of this one I used to maintain on blogspot.

I’ve abandoned blogspot in favor of wordpress mostly because I like the theme I have for fijiaaron & cuencatravel.  Which is probably mostly because I like the photo of the Cuenca Cathedral.  I don’t like wordpress, and I don’t like blogspot either, but at least it has a bigger textarea to compose in.  And it seems to screw up less.

I should have my blogs tied to my websites, like blog.cuencatravel.com or blog.one-shore.com.  I originally created a wordpress install on one-shore and a blogger account pointing to somewhere on cuencatravel.  But those have been abandoned.  I use this for expediency and habit, and now I have a large amount of (mostly worthless) content here too.  I also suspect that I get a lot more readers than I would self hosted, which was one of the reasons for it as well.

Two reasons keep me here:

1. Inertia – it exists, I’m used to it, and all my content is here, which gives it context
2. Maintenance – wordpress does a better job of maintaining than I ever would

Two reasons to stay here are:

1. Exposure – it gives me more exposure (though we’re talking sub-dozen) and provides links to my site.
2.  Content – I already have my content here, and I like the theme and stats.

What I’d really like is one blog with better category management so my mom, potential employers/customers, or people looking for tools reviews can see what they want and not have to see what they don’t want.  That way, at the least, if I post in the wrong category, a simple edit can move it.  I know they have categories, but no filtering.

Maybe what I need is to just separate the personal, the business, and the tech musings into three blogs.  Which means creating one more.  And defeats keep reason 2 and stay reason 1.