“So,” as Vizzini would say, “it is down to you, and it is down to me.”

For now, Colaspot has one editor — one editor who’s been rather scarce lately.

Where have I been?

I’ve left a full-time job, which turned out to be a busy transition. Since then, Colaspot had to take third priority. I’ve focused mostly on freelance work (stupid food won’t just jump on the table), and on my writing blog, which has also languished. I decided to spend more time talking about writing than actually doing it; a characteristic common to most writers.

It also turns out that it’s as hard to talk about high-tech topics in this town as it is to get a tech job in Columbia that doesn’t do insurance. Matthew did a great job holding up the entertainment and gaming front. But there’s more stuff to talk about if we look hard enough.

Where is Colaspot going?

For my first act as Supreme Commander, I’ve opened the site up to comments. Many of you have asked for this since the beginning, but we chose to lean more towards the magazine format and less towards the blog format. It’s become obvious that the editors have had trouble keeping activity up on their own; now it’s time for you to pitch in. Yes, you. If you have thoughts about anything you read here, punch that comment button and exercise your right to free speech. A word of warning, though: the editorial “we” will exercise our editorial right to K-line your comment if it is obscene, flameworthy, off-topic, or dumb.

Four days from now, Colaspot will celebrate its six-month birthday. (That’s also your fearless editor’s birthday, but please, no gifts.*) Kind of a lot’s happened in those six months. Of the three editors who started Colaspot, none of us is in the same job situation as when we started. One of us added a new family member. We’ve had a few regular and semi-regular contributors. We’ve had no readers, regular readers, and occasional readers.

Enough with the history lesson already.

On the Web, traffic comes and traffic goes. There could be three of you reading this today. I haven’t checked stats in months, and frankly, I don’t care what the stats say. Tomorrow we could get dugg and three thousand might show up. That’s the magic of the Interweb, people. It’s fickle, and it’s honest. If you have something interesting to talk about, people will read it.

Eventually Colaspot will come up with something interesting and relevant to say. Stick around, you’d hate to miss it.

*I said no gifts, but if you want to bring me a gift of a dozen weekly posts on a given topic of interest, we’ll talk.