Milling Around

Where yah been?

Blog is such an ugly word

To answer the thoroughly ungrammatical question above, I’ve been busy building the Machining Business News website. While a web log – aka “blog” – is one way to get my information out to the masses, I find it takes as whole lot of monkeying around with HTML code and debugging to get things to look the way I want, then there’s duplicating it over at Blogger.

Too, I’ve never liked the word “blog.” It’s an affront to both the eye and ear. Over at MBN, I can call it a news and information site. Much more classy and much less likely to offend my effete sensibilities.

To add to the basic problems such as those in constructing this column, I’m uncomfortable mixing opinion, news, new products, and other features in a single posting. Thus, the move to Machining Business News – MBN – website. There, everything is nicely compartmentalized and much more organized.

This also gives me better search engine exposure since “machining” and “business” both better describe what I offer than my punny column name, “Milling Around.”

I’m sorry to say pickin’s will still be pretty slim for the next few days, but don’t despair. Once the site is complete, it will offer deeper and much more organized information to give machine shops the advantage they need to succeed in these tough times.

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