Blogging is a timeline of shared information. It is a conversation between one person and a wider, unknown audience. It is just as valid if the audience is the blogger alone.
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My Relationship with Blogging
I began blogging in the early 2000’s using Radioland. I met many interesting people online. There was a way to “trackback” and reference the original post when you posted about what another had said. This seems to have fallen away and it’s hard to have those conversations.
- Maggie Appleton’s The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI explains the scenario of people being unable to connect well
My Decision to Stop Blogging has clearly been overturned. I think I’ve found a way to mix blogging and notes within The Quantum Garden. My sense is that blogging is sharing the process of live thinking which provides context, and notes are the knowledge that come from that. I have 128 notes that mention “blogging” so there is a hidden importance to delve into. Many discuss my on-again/off-again relationship with the practice. For it is a practice. Some of my struggles have involved:
- Confidentiality
- Habit
- Writing for the wrong audience
- The balance between sharing ideas and sharing instructions with all the background needed to handle that. Maggie’s article linked above specifies an assumed audience. I can use that more.
- ”People who have heard of GPT-3 / ChatGPT, and are vaguely following the advances in machine learning, large language models, and image generators. Also people who care about making the web a flourishing social and intellectual space.”
What I’ve Written About Blogging
The Practice
- Writing is a Concernful Activity
- Types of bloggers
- I am an observational blogger
- Comparing Digital Gardens to Blogging
- Ideas are Better in Bed
- RSS Remains an Important Technology
- My Decision to Stop Blogging
- Bloggers should support other bloggers
Tools
Articles I’ve Not Yet Processed
- Blog for Learning - Making a Blog with Roam
- How To Use Tags On Your Blog (Most Are Doing It All Wrong) - Love People + Make Money
- How I take Smart Notes — Nicholas Seitz Photographer
- There is a freedom in not thinking I have to blog anymore