Starting a new blog

Now that I have my Ruby projects planned out for at least a year, I'd like to figure out my next blog. My principal reason for writing these blogs is to learn as much as I can about new Internet technologies. Ruby will likely be my core language for exploring much of this on the server side, but I also need to learn AJAX to handle client-side programming. I had thought about starting an AJAX blog, but that is too limiting. I also want to learn about lots of other stuff:

• APIs
• Map programming and related geocoding techniques. As O'Reilly would say in his incredibly pithy manner, everything having to do with Where.
• Mashing up APIs and maps to create new hybrid apps.
• The various interop technologies, such as REST, XML-RPC, and SOAP.

This next blog will probably be the last one I start for at least a year, so I want it to be inclusive enough to handle all of these issues. I'm thinking that Mashups combine them in a convenient package, so my most likely decision will be to start Mashup.Darwinianweb.com as the new blog. That would leave me with three blogs:

• DarwinianWeb.com: Focusing on general issues of the evolution of the Internet and software.
• Ruby.DarwinianWeb.com: A central clearing house for all my Ruby programming work.
• Mashup.DarwinianWeb.com: A common location for my explorations of the rest of these new technologies.

My wife keeps telling me to just write one blog and combine everything there, but I think that the separate Ruby blog has been a success, because it allows me to cover details about the language and source code listings that would surely chase away any general reader who wasn't programming in Ruby. I think the mashup work requires the same type of separation. I'll make a decision on this in the next day or so. Luckily the code I've written for these blogs makes it easy to start a new one with just an hour or so of effort.