Welcome to the new, improved Leftmost Bit. Things around here have changed considerably after a long period of light posting. First, this is no longer my all-encompassing tumblelog hosted on Tumblr. Second, as noted in the sidebar, Leftmost Bit now has a very specific focus: covering the intersection of technology and politics. I had realized that my Tumblr posts were sort of all over the map, and that many of my very good-looking readers (that includes you!) are just not interested in all the same things I’m interested in. A post on politics followed by a post on Ruby on Rails just didn’t make much sense.

So, I’ve built a bit of a blog network for myself. My homepage now lives at LuigiMontanez.com, which will act as an aggregator for all my public online activities. As already stated, Leftmost Bit is re-purposed to act as a blog focusing exclusively on the world of politics and how technology affects it.

Salesforce on Rails is where I get technical: a blog on web application development (what I actually get paid to do). While there are scores of Ruby on Rails blogs out there, there aren’t many yet on web development using Salesforce’s Force.com technology. Lastly, Social Graph Theory covers my newest area of interest: building an open Social Graph. I think we’re all starting to realize that despite all the great advances of Web 2.0 and sites like Facebook, there’s still something not quite right about how we define and create our social relationships online. Many very smart people are working on addressing these concerns, and exploring this field in greater depth is something I look forward to doing.

If you subscribed to the previous incarnation of Leftmost Bit in your feedreader, you don’t have to do anything to continue receiving my posts on the intersection of politics and technology. For the other two topics, here’s the feed for Salesforce on Rails and here’s the feed for Social Graph Theory.