11 posts tagged “blogging”
Hello again.
I am not dead, although I have been away an awfully long time. This was owing to a combination of factors - partly that Firefox 3 and the Mac didn't play nicely with Vox, but mainly because when it go to March and it was still winter I just couldn't stand it any more, and lost the will to do anything except make sarcastic remarks and lie on the sofa drinking gin.
And then it was spring. And we uninstalled Firefox 3. And a message came from the Canada jury asking where my blog was. Well. I was rather overexcited to find I had a regular reader, let alone one who noticed I had gone. So, thanks JP and thanks springtime. I'm back. And slightly overexcited about it. Hurrah.
Today is this blog's first birthday.
I made three posts on 1st January 2007 and a total of 150 posts over the year, averaging slightly less than one post every 2.5 days.
I've really enjoyed it, and am looking forward to another year of blogging in 2008.
Happy New Year everyone, and Happy Birthday Fletchspace.
Stephen Fry is blogging. As he is incapable of being dull, this is a very good thing. That is all.
I have just realised that today is six months since I started this blog. Of course this doesn't really mean anything, but I'm pleased I am still here. I may have to treat myself to a new design.
So how much does it matter if you are blogging, Facebooking, Myspacing - sharing the details of your life online in any way, shape or form? I imagine that for many people, they don't give a second thought to how it may impact their life 'offline' - right up to the point where they find their online life caused them to miss out on a job because they are 'ethically unsuitable' for the organisation.
Since Emily Nussbaum covered Generation Y's increasing willingness to share every detail of their personal lives online in her piece Say Everything, I've seen a number of interesting posts mulling over the consequences - is this something younger people will come to regret as they get older and grow more conservative, or is there going to be a cultural shift that will mean your youthful Facebook profile won't count against you, as the person hiring you has one too?
I'm inclined to think the latter, but I also couldn't agree more with Antony Mayfield, that managing your personal online reputation will become a core life skill.
Now I haven't shared this worry with you so far, but for a little while now, I've been worried I might secretly be a man. Why? No, it's not my inability to ask for directions when lost, or failure to see washing-up until the sink has actually disappeared (™ gross gender-based generalisations). It's because David Weinburger's post alerted me to the existence of The Gender Genie, a little piece of magic designed to analyse text and tell you whether it was written by a man or a woman.
Now the site clearly states that it works best with passages of over 500 words. Nonetheless, I tried it with a couple of my shorter blog posts, and was alarmed to find that I was... apparently a man.
I have just tried again, with this recent post that conveniently happens to be over 500 words, and phew... I'm a woman after all. Well now I can relax.
Now I have been given to understand that my one Canada-based reader is distinctly unimpressed with the recent lack of blogging going on at this spot. To which I have to say:
- Quite right, my apologies, and
- You're a fine one to talk young man
So come on JP, get blogging!
When I wrote my first post, I said that one of the reasons I wanted to blog was so that I could keep track of all the interesting stuff I stumbled across as I wandered round t'internet.
I wonder if I would ever have started a blog if Tumblr had been around at the time. Is it greedy (or stupid) to try and do both, I wonder?
Lifehacker (yes, I know I'm obsessed) has a great post on how to tumble.
I have decided that there is little point in making any New Year’s Resolutions, as they so often fall by the wayside by about the 9th January, but there are several things that I’d like to do this year. They are:
- Project 365: Take a photo a day for a year (via Lifehacker)
- Couch to 5k
- At least one yoga class a week
And of course keeping up this blog with at least a few posts a week. Hmmm. We’ll see…
First of the 365 pics to be posted as soon as I can work out where the camera USB lead is in the nest of a thousand cables that we have in this household.
Great piece in yesterday’s Observer investigating our urge to record our inner thoughts and everyday impressions in one way or another.
