Mid-January Resolutions
1) floss
2) offer the world a renewed window onto my experiences and insights (via blog)
I’ll only go into some detail on the second, for now. I think that resolving to write fairly interesting things without a deadline would be a good project for me in the coming semester. One of my intentions is that this might help me to keep or cultivate a writing style that is distinct from how I write academic papers. We’ll see how this goes; you (dear reader) could be getting anything from novel bits of literature, to photographs of bread, to, well, knock-knock jokes–if it comes to that.
Hey Christina, I saw this post when it came out on my RSS feed. However, I was insanely busy and couldn’t respond until now.
To throw in an idea: I’m not sure if you only want to write posts with lots of substance in them. But it seems that you want to write short informal posts. If that’s the case, I would recommend…. “microblogging”!
I won’t explain what microblogging is, but there are two big services on the internet these days offering microblogging. The first is Tumblr, and I really like it since it feels like a braindump to me whereas blogs require well reasoned and substantial thoughts. So Tumblr could really cater to your posts of pictures, jokes, quotes, etc. And you wouldn’t feel guilty about not sitting down for an hour or so to write a full-fledged blog post.
In addition, within Tumblr, you can set your own url. So theoretically, you can have blog.blueyville.org as your blog, and tumble.blueyville.org (or anything else) as your tumblelog. In fact, you might even replace your blog with the tumblelog. (I’m thinking about doing this for my blog.)
The other service is Twitter, and it’s like: Micro-microblogging. Actually, it’s not even really blogging. It’s more like an improved “Facebook Status” function. Essentially, every “post” must be <=140 words. So people mainly use Twitter to voluntarily tell the world what they are doing at any point in time. It’s like a reverse Big Brother service. As you can tell, I don’t really like Twitter, and I have a feeling that you won’t really like it that much either. But I have to at least mention it.
Looking forward to your future posts!
Comment by Michael — January 19, 2008 @ 3:18 am