It'll be transparent to you all, and the blog will continue in much the same way as it is now. I'll just be devoting more and more of my irrepressible analytical efforts (as longtime readers know, I've tried to repress them on a regular basis!) to Wikistrat products, which I'm excited to help develop. As I'm currently working with my editor, Mark Warren, to go to market with "The Emily Updates" book, I don't have the outlet of working a new volume on globalization/US foreign policy/international relations and Wikistrat gives me a relationship where I can put those inescapable energies to some use. That's also why I'm getting my security clearance re-established almost six years after I gave it up at the Naval War College.
Unless I pick this sort of focus for the blog, I just wouldn't know what to do with all the information I get from tracking the media and all the ideas that result, and I'm just not ready to retire that part of my brain. It's simply too much of who I am. But as my decision a while back to stop the heavy volume indicated, after six-and-a-half years of blogging (this is post 12,006), I needed either to decide and integrate these analytical efforts more formally into my work or to set it aside. Fortunately for me, Wikistrat saw an opportunity in that decision-point and so we'll see how this collaboration evolves.
Again, it was time for me to find some larger home for the blog and my larger body of work versus doing this all by myself as the proverbial one-armed paperhanger. Now that Enterra has matured to the point where we're no longer in the evangelical mode and I'm back to the level of effort I had in my first 2-3 years with the company, I need to reacquaint myself with a lot of subjects where I've maintained the minimum of currency to write but not the maximum possible for deeper exploration as I see fit--or simply get excited enough to pursue.
And I think moving the blog to Wikistrat will help me do that.
So see you there next Monday.