If you look at the Monthly: box over in the right margin, you’ll notice that posting frequency has dropped by about 50% for the past 6 months. Some of it has been because I’ve been busy, but another factor has been what I can only describe as dilution. With so many ways of emitting signal – Facebook, Wave and especially Twitter – and some finite number of things to say, my attention has not been focused on posting. I read this entry by Eliza Gauger with interest; I’m not willing to go as far as Bruce Sterling and declare blogging dead, but it has taken a bit of a hit. While I was looking at the bookmarklet Eliza is using, I discovered that there’s similar functionality built into WordPress called Press This. I’ve started using it (‘sproke and the two Lottes were posted via Press This) and am going to mix a lot more Tumblr/Soup-ish quick links into the blog stream. Expect the blog to be – at least until I go off on another tangent – a mix of ‘ooh, shiny’ quickies, stream-of-experience pictures and bog standard pointless ruminations.
Diary of a Mad Natural Historian
"It's easy enough to stand still. The difficulty is to walk without touching the ground."
I’ve actually been considering switching RKNet’s blog area over to my soup for the time being, as I’ve found I have little to say, but much to share, and none of my other “authors” have really been available (nor can I afford to pay them).
But that’d give me the opportunity to take the “blog” in a new direction, possibly something like what’s discussed here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/the-death-of-the-blog-post/
The detailed, magazine style individual page post. It’d be an interesting challenge, and totally worthwhile, but VERY tricky to upkeep, thus pretty much forcing a slower schedule by valuing quality over quantity.
Wow! That’s an interesting approach – I like it (though I sure don’t have the design chops to attempt it).