Blogging: A 10-year retrospective
7 Apr 2010 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneI was thinking the other day about how I have pared down the uses to which I subject this, my main blog! When I was 19 or 20, sometimes I'd make up to 17 posts a day. I used to post to livejournal:
★ Links to stories I really liked as I read them; today I post these to
cimness via bookmarklet as I go.
★ Amusing quotes from badfic as I read it; today I save these and post them in daily batches of five.
★ Links to political & interesting news items, and blog posts from other sites; today I post these to
cimness as I go (though today there are more of them, since I didn't follow Cake Wrecks, FailBlog, I Can Has Cheezburger, or the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks in 2002).
★ Beautiful images I stumbled across; today I post these to
cimness (along with lots, lots more images).
★ Quotes from whatever book I was reading that I particularly loved; today I post these tocimness.
★ Random thoughts as they crossed my mind; today I post these tocimness, and when I used to, even as a teenie, occasionally feel constrained not to post every thought, that's actually the whole point of Twitter, which is nice.
In fact, of all the things I used to post, the only ones that remain are
★ Rants and essays and thoughts about fandom, and
★ Diary-like recollections from my life.
Now I also post organized sets of plebefic headers and shoes regularly, but I didn't start those until later.
In conclusion: ten years have brought wondrous advances to the world of blogging technology! Almost all of these acts of posting are a lot easier now than they were then, too. The only thing that isn't is posting to Dreamwidth, because I don't have an awesome Linux client for it to compare with Semagic back in the day (though I saw someone posting about a new one recently, I didn't feel up to investigating it).
★ Links to stories I really liked as I read them; today I post these to
cimness via bookmarklet as I go. Before Delicious, I kept an html file open at all times in which I put other recs in the order I read them, writing them up as I went, and every month or so I'd sort them by fandom and upload the new ones to the frontpage of my recs site, then go through and individually add them to the alphabetized fandom pages. Delicious has made my life a lot better.
★ Amusing quotes from badfic as I read it; today I save these and post them in daily batches of five.
★ Links to political & interesting news items, and blog posts from other sites; today I post these to
cimness as I go (though today there are more of them, since I didn't follow Cake Wrecks, FailBlog, I Can Has Cheezburger, or the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks in 2002).★ Beautiful images I stumbled across; today I post these to
cimness (along with lots, lots more images). ★ Quotes from whatever book I was reading that I particularly loved; today I post these to
cimness.★ Random thoughts as they crossed my mind; today I post these to
cimness, and when I used to, even as a teenie, occasionally feel constrained not to post every thought, that's actually the whole point of Twitter, which is nice.In fact, of all the things I used to post, the only ones that remain are
★ Rants and essays and thoughts about fandom, and
★ Diary-like recollections from my life.
Now I also post organized sets of plebefic headers and shoes regularly, but I didn't start those until later.
In conclusion: ten years have brought wondrous advances to the world of blogging technology! Almost all of these acts of posting are a lot easier now than they were then, too. The only thing that isn't is posting to Dreamwidth, because I don't have an awesome Linux client for it to compare with Semagic back in the day (though I saw someone posting about a new one recently, I didn't feel up to investigating it).
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Date: 7 Apr 2010 01:58 pm (UTC)