Reboot
Seriously, I need to do something to refresh this excuse of a blog. I used to post about stuff. Then Twitter came along and I find it just so much easier to spout off in 140 character bursts.
Part of me is tempted to clean out the domain and start fresh. I only have one or two posts that get any sort of regular traffic, and one of them is like four years old now and totally irrelevant. However, I have some sort of nostalgic attachment to this domain.
I own a couple of variations of my name, as well as a few other random domains that could be interesting to start something fresh on. However, I’m just not sure.
I’m not sure moving from one domain to another would really help, though. I blame social networking. Anymore, I talk so much about the day-to-day on Twitter and through the occasional Facebook status update that stuff just doesn’t stick in my mind long enough to get to the blog.
On occasion, I get a wild hair to come in and redo things in here. Move to Expression Engine perhaps, or really take the time to craft up a nice WP theme, either using Carrington as more than its default state like it is now or building off of Sandbox or something. Then I remember the other side projects I have brewing, all of which are of higher priority than this site.
The things I stew on longer, to think about and share, are primarily of a technical nature anymore, and it feels funny to go blathering on about jQuery in this environment because it’s generally much more personal. At the same time, I find that it’s one of the more exciting things I deal with on a day-to-day, and I mix it into tweets about other stuff, so perhaps I shouldn’t be concerned with crossover here.
I’ve also thought about keeping this place personal and using more of a normal-namespace type blog (I own 2 or 3 variations of BrianArnold.___) for more technical, professional stuff.
If anyone even still reads this, I’d love a comment, to get some feedback. I’m not sure it’s worth even really bothering with at this point – hard to say.
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I still read it when the RSS feed tells me it’s been updated :)
Ditto that, Mup.
I dunno Bri, you could just make it a point to go into 140+ character detail of one topic a day.
Don’t end up like me, though. My “wild hairs” are the most inane bits of trivia. It’s like hitting the random button on Wiki.
You could just have all your tweets post automatically to the blog. Then have you blog post to twitter and start an infinite loop.
I read it!
I love twitter but I don’t think of it as a replacement for a blog — they’re fundamentally different things. My thoughts on twitter are the subject of a pending blog post at some point, actually.
I also think in prose, so blogging’s a pretty natural thing for me.
I’ve been maintaining my own website since the mid 90s, even as social networks have grown and evolved.
Maybe I’m just old fashioned, but I think there is still value to having a place on the net that you can call your own, free of any advertisements, draconian TOS, and the like.
And, on the pragmatic site, having your own site with a decent number of inbound links will ensure that it comes up first when someone Googles for your name. That can be important too. :-)