Hi Readers (I know you’re out there)! Change of pace here – I’m not going to write under the OurEchoChamber name anymore, and the old url will now direct you to kmcglynn.blog. Don’t worry – if you were subscribed before, you’re still subscribed. This post is just a quick one to let you know what’s up with that, and then I’ll start writing here again.

OurEchoChamber was a lofty goal and it wasn’t a great title. The idea was that I was going to re-think the whole idea of an echo chamber, and create a space where differing ideas could “reverberate” and create new and better understanding, rather than a deeper chasm. It was going to be a place where polarization was lessened rather than worsened, and where people came together to create a better understanding of each other. If you can’t hear it through my writing, I’m rolling my eyes (yes, my eye rolls are audible) and struggling to admit in writing that these were things I thought I’d do as an inconsistent part-time blogger. I was young and idealistic and I set myself up for failure on this particular project. So it goes.

The title was also stopping me from writing. I didn’t like that the title of my blog suggested the actual opposite of what I wanted to be doing. Titles aren’t the place for unexplained nuance, and so for a long time I’ve been embarrassed by the title of this blog and consequently avoiding it.

I’m still going to try to write (hopefully) thoughtful responses to what’s going on, and share my perspective when I think it’s valuable. Writing these posts has started conversations that I’m grateful to have had – it turns out people do read and have thoughts, but most of them would rather talk about it in person or over text than in a public comments section. Makes sense to me.

In addition to the title change, and in some ways because of the title change, you might notice a shift in tone. I won’t say much about that here other than that I think (hope) the writing in future will be more fun to read and have a bit more personality. As for the Facebook page, I’m still going to have a separate Facebook page that you can like or not like, independently of whether you like or don’t like me, or are friends or not friends with me on Facebook. I prefer my writing to be opted into rather than to force it into peoples’ newsfeeds (though if you feel it’s worth sharing, I certainly encourage that). I’ve requested that the Facebook page title be changed, but apparently that needs approval from Mark Zuckerberg himself (or, I don’t know, maybe someone he’s hired along the way), so it might take a few days, but eventually it’ll also be called KMcGlynn.blog. Then there will be some semblance of sense.

Thanks for reading, for following, and for engaging either on-screen or off. I’ll be back soon.

KM