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I’ve managed to stumble upon at least one other blog that seems to have some content related to what I’ve started looking for - which, as you may have read in my first post - is to find others responsible for web operations. I’ll have to add Kitchen Soap to what I hope will be a quickly expanding list of blogs similar to mine.

I also learned recently about the Web 2.0 summit coming this October. I’ve requested my invite, but no luck as of yet. Anyone been to this in the past? Given the speaker list, I would think this would be worth the trip cross-country to attend.

So, I’m a n00b. Up until now, I’ve never had a reason or believed that there was a purpose for me to start a blog. Let’s face it, who would really want to read about what some unknown yoyo has to say? A recent change in jobs has prompted me to revisit this decision and I have come up with what I think are 2 valid reasons for me to start blogging:

1. I’m responsible for Web Ops for an online travel company. As I’m sure oodles of people are well aware, there are more travel blogs around the web than you can shake a passport at. I think it is worthwhile for me to understand more about participating in blogging culture in order to transfer this experience to my current job responsibilities.

2. Again, I am responsible for Web Operations. In the last month or so, I’ve come to realize that there aren’t a lot of Web Ops specific blogs / sites / conferences around, that don’t focus primarily around programming or setting up the most kick ass Apache server (not that there’s anything wrong with that!). But I would like to see if this blog can essentially tap into a what I would think is an existing pool of people in a position similar to mine that are looking to share and promote thoughts, ideas and information about running their respective companies website operations - more from an infrastructure planning and day to day management perspective rather than hands on coder and sysadmin.

So that’s it. My first blog post on my first blog. Whew…