A dataset for our regular readers

It was probably heard Merlin Mann who said that you should never apologize on your blog for not having updated your blog.

I love ol’ hotdogsladies, but I think we do owe a bit of an explanation.

If you’re not already following Datachondria on Twitter, you can do so here. And if you want to get really personal with us datachondrians, you can do that too.

Now, the excuses:

• I am a happy new daddy who just started a new job.
• Ryan, daddy of a toddler, has more going on at work than I care to consider without a drink in me
• Rob’s writing a book and was recently promoted
• Mark’s the last to have posted here so he doesn’t need any excusing, though you really should check out the fine work he does on his main blog

Now, the promises for posts we’ll be serving up soon (though perhaps later):

• We’re divided on Twitter’s new native retweet functionality — yes, at least one of us actually likes it
• We’re not sure about Foursquare; who’s it for and why would they use it?
• We’ve tried (and failed at) conducting our weekly meeting on Google Wave
• I suspect my family still resents me pushing them to Twitter for updates on the birth of The Boy
• We’re just about ready to post our first podcast.

That’s to say nothing at all of electronic reading, parenting and mobile apps, job transitioning with social media, digital guidance to analog pleasures, and however serendipity leads us to those moments of palpable transition that we’ll forever try to capture and share with you.

Thanks for sticking with us.