Somebody just recently asked me if I'd posted on my blog recently... and as you can see from the dates, my answer was no.
So why do people start up blogs and then not keep going? It's a bit reminiscent of those personal web pages on 'free' hosting sites which were set up once, maybe tended for a short while and then just forgotten - left to be sucked up by the sands of time (and the creditors when the hosting company collapsed).
I can't really answer for anyone else, but for me I have to admit that it's partly because I don't feel any real emotional attachment to my blog space. It's google's, not mine. The URL tries to make it feel personal, heck - google really does try to give you some sense of web 'backyard' to work within (and major kudos to them - privacy issues set aside), but it's just not the same as having a site which you've built up from the ground.
Those people who have known me for some time, know that I began working with HTML back in it's infancy (at least in Australia), way back in the early to mid 90's. I can't really remember when I first started, but it was early. I remember the joy of being able to use the img tag for the first time (note: not xHTML compliant - no / in those days!). I remember animated gifs and the free for all that web enthusiasts had for setting them as background images, regardless of how tacky it made the site, or how hard to read. I remember feeling like a legend, because my good old Netscape managed to get my page up and going and looking kind of like I'd intended in under 10 seconds (remember 9600 baud?). I remember using notepad and Netscape Composer to set it all up. Those were the days where I had some sense of personal belonging - where I knew that all that was there was because I could.
These days you select a template, give it a title and away you go...
It seems to me that the most used blogs (and this is from pro's as well) are ones where some personalisation has occured, they're not just plain vanilla anymore.
Maybe that's what I've got to do. That and get some darn visitors!!! Come on, leave a comment just so I know that there's someone out there...
1 comment:
Here's a comment... just to let you know someone IS out here. You'll just have to get over the fact it's one of your students!
I'm going to go play with my freshly downloaded Firefox 3 now :D
Tata.
P.S: What's the go with ausersview? 'Cause at the moment it doesn't seem to be going at all.
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