Unusual Porridge

Started blogging more than 15 years ago. I should have about 1,000 entries. But, I don’t. How many versons of my blog lasted? None. But there are about 10 of them since I first started writing for the web in 1994. I tweet a lot, so I’ve put the feed here for diversion.

Should I go back and pull in entries from all the old versions? That might be fun, but time would have to slow to a crawl. There’s just too much to do these days.

What’s important is what will happen in the future. Digging in the past is a way of understanding that future, but it’s not worth much more than that. So, I will probably scan a bunch of photos from childhood. There’s no point in letting them just sit in photo albums.

Going to start taking a lot more pictures, picking up a hobby I’ve been trying to nurture since Uncle Scooby bought me my very first camera. Probably post pics of my folks,–they’d both dead, they won’t care. Lots of pictures from places I’ve been and places I intend to go.

But, there is a lot to talk about. Very little of it has to do with the past. It’s all about the future.

So, let’s get on with it!

Twitter changed the way we all think about social media. Not revolutionary, actually, just effective. And,t hat’s the difference. Texting was around long before Twitter, –but Twitter made it easy and they made it into  social graph,–as opposed to a conversation between 2 people. That’s why they took over email for quick thoughts and, to a large extent, blogging for extended conversations.

Blogs have a purpose, though. We can now take them back to the start and re-evaluate how they fit into our day. Because we have alternatives.

Twitter enforces tightening of thoughts. I would argue that those constraints drive creativity. But, blogs serve as a place to lounge and explore thoughts in a more leisurely environment. Ads and links photos provide distraction and supplementation in a way that is impossible under Twitter’s constraints.

I will try to impose my own constraints on this blog of about 500 words a go. No more than that.

Things I care about most are tagged below and match the categories for this blog. You’ll find I care about a lot more, but I’ll try to keep it tight. Because I run a LOT of blogs and web properties.

Well, that’s a quick thought for the day. Back to preparing for my trip.