About me, about the Journal

I'm Jon Konrath, and I'm a writer, in my 30s, and living in Playa Del Rey, California. (That's LA, by the way.) I work as a technical writer for a software company. And at night, I write books. There's more personal info about me at my homepage, and the rest of rumored.com.

When things are going good, I try to write in this journal every day. I've also kept a paper journal since late 1993, but the two don't mix. Trying to enter my paper journals onto the computer would be a full-time task. It's easier for me to use this for "public" writing, and keep the private stuff on paper.

I've been doing this long before the word "blog" was coined. To me, a blog is a "web log", or mostly a list of links to the things you've seen while messing around on the web. This isn't anything new; back in 1992 when I started a homepage and played with Mosaic, almost every page out there consisted nothing but links to other pages on the web. Now there are a lot of fancy, database-driven, skinnable, thin-client, open-source, standards-compliant, RSS-aggregated, Web 2.0 solutions to do the same thing, but those pages aren't writing, and that is what I like to do. So instead of a bunch of little entries containing links to what's neat and a lot of time wasted on design and whatever else, I would rather write longer essay-type pieces.

I have a story behind the name of the journal, and at some point I will post it here when enough people bug me about it. Oh, I should also mention that the first three years or so of this journal were published in a book, and I think they make good reading. Of course, you could click through all of the links for those years here for free, but if you want to do it the old-fashioned way and sit down with a piece of dead tree, I think it's worth it for the price.

Anyway, keep in touch, and enjoy.

-Jon
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