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A Whole New Blog

April 06, 2007

And now the news:

I've started a new blog, which like this one is called Male Pattern Fitness.

Why a new MPF?

As many of you know, I've been unsatisfied with this site from the get-go. I was frustrated with the blog's inability to accept comments from readers (except those Dan Brown fans who'd figured out how to crack the comment-posting code), the site's lack of connectivity to the greater blogosphere, and the expense involved in making even the most minor modifications to the site.

I can't say when I reached the tipping point, but I do know that in the past year or so I've started telling friends and colleagues that I really needed two sites: one for promoting my books, articles, interviews, and appearances, and one for blogging. This site works just fine for promoting my work, so what I really needed was a new place to blog.

Most of you know that I'm a pretty serious seamhead. I occasionally post on baseball message boards. (Please don't share that fact with my wife or any of my former employers.) In fact, I got the idea for starting a fitness message board at menshealth.com from my clandestine experience with online sports argumentation. For the past few months, my favorite baseball site has been Viva El Birdos, which is part of Sports Blog Nation. SB Nation, just to take things full circle, is run by Tyler Bleszinski, a former colleague of mine at Men's Health.

So I asked Tyler if I could join his blogging collective, and I guess I caught him on a good day, because he agreed. His folks designed the very cool site, and I should soon be blogging away on the new and (vastly) improved MPF. Meanwhile, I'll continue to update this site when I do something worth promoting, and of course you can find me for at least a few minutes a day over at JP Fitness.

Thanks for your time and attention here, and I look forward to continuing our conversation over there. And this time, you should find it easy and fun to hold up your end of that conversation.

Posted by LouSchuler at April 6, 2007 04:03 PM

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Awwww, you mean my elite hacker skills will no longer be necessary to post comments?

Sounds great -- congrats on the site move! And it'll be a huge bonus if this means more baseball musings, too. :)

Posted by: Redlefty at April 7, 2007 11:08 AM

that makes sense now. i was wondering why the site was named one thing and the domain another.

Posted by: Israel at October 15, 2007 11:57 PM

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