WoW! Wouter on the Web

The parallel blog to this blog was started in May 2005. From the onset it was a blog written in Dutch. At the beginning I thought it was more important to plough back information from the English library log world into the Dutch biblioblogosphere. However it soon proved interesting to post in English as well. I felt a strong need to interact with the English liblog world as well. So for some period of time my blog at wowter.nl was bilingual.
The title of this post refers back to a discussion –in blogs- I had with Ruminations and In between. Interesting to note how my opinion has changed now. Since it seems to me that you can’t really combine two languages on a single blog. In the end a bilingual blog proved to be unsatisfactory. I had the feeling the blog was becoming less attractive to a part of my Dutch Audience. Posts in English were visited less frequently than Dutch posts. On the other hand, being primarily a Dutch, or bilingual Blog It seemed to me that I did not attract a steady English speaking audience. This is also affected by the observation that a mainly Dutch blog will rank less favourable in Google.com, so the discoverability of the English blog posts was far lower than Dutch post by Google.nl.
So for quite some time I had the idea to circumvent all these problems and start a separate blog in English, on a more international domain. I registered wowter.net already quite some time ago, but I never got around to make a start. I finally didn’t bother too much about a super perfect layout and here it is.
I finally made the start.