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They asked, so here’s my answer.

On chellman.org, I have five main weblogs.

1. The main one is chellman.org, which has one author. It’s all my personal posts.
2. Home Audio Journal is another weblog, again with just one author, me.
3. Memoirs of a Herpetologist is my brother’s weblog. He’s the only active author, and he’s writing about his experiences in Guam for the benefit of our family.
4. Under The Covers is my wife’s weblog, and she was the only author. But now she has switched over to Livejournal, and is pretty much doing all her posting there, so this is not active anymore.
5. The book review site has five or six authors, but has been less than active lately. The intent, though, was to create a group weblog for our friends to post book reviews for each other.

I was also going to have Trackback aggregation weblog for Chicago bloggers, but that project never really took off.

Finally, there’s the weblog for my web design business. It’s really more like a personal weblog where I can post things related to web design (to keep it out of my personal site), but because it is related to my business, it’s not covered by the personal license under which I’ve been using MT. I don’t make enough money in that business, and the weblog isn’t important enough, that I can afford to pay for a commercial license. It will also give me an excuse to try some of the other tools that have come out since I started using Movable Type (at 1.0).

All told, I currently have five-seven weblogs running, and I can easily see myself making more. I am a musician, and might want to create new journals for tours I’m doing, or create weblogs for various other pursuits I get myself into. I would like to see the number of weblogs I create for myself be unlimited, or at least larger than it is now.

I don’t anticipate making more weblogs like the one for my brother, where it’s a totally separate author posting on my MT install. There are three active authors right now — I would have liked to see more, but it hasn’t worked out that way so far.

I donated some amount of money (I don’t remember how much) back when Six Apart was Mena and Ben, but I don’t remember how much it was.