Thinking about these recent posts:
- Loic Le Meur on wishing for his social map to be recentralized onto his blog
- Leisa Reichelt on ambient exposure
- Shelley Powers rearchitecting her site again
Trying to figure out what to do about blogging, tweeting, lifestreaming, other.
I like what Les has done with his blog, turned it into a lifestream. That’s what mine has become, but with only one source: del.icio.us. Kind of pathetic, but anyway the only public thing I’ve been doing lately is bookmarking stuff.
Although I would like to write again, I don’t want to do it so boldly, so exposedly. At the same time, I want to be fully me, in all my dimensions, not limited to some niche or domain or political perspective.
Am I the only tech blogger — er, former tech blogger — who doesn’t want my identity unified, my social graph centralized?
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I don’t know. My blog is my voice, but not necessarily the place where I want everything aggregated. Seems like it detracts from what I am trying to achieve. I would rather aggregate elsewhere, e.g. Friendfeed, or my own portal.
So you’re not alone
I liked your old blog posts. I’ve been a little sad it’s only been links lately. Do you mind if I ask what’s made you feel exposed by what you posted?
I know I’ll never be an a-list blogger, nor do I aspire to be. I write about what’s interesting to me, and that changes hourly. Looking at my newest blog venture, I am talking about my children, tech, cooking, inbox issues, and generally nothing in particular. And to be honest, it’s pretty satisfying. Focused blogging is fantastic, and I do love to read several narrow-scope blogs. But when it comes to personal blogging, I like the freedom of not putting myself in a pigeonhole or worrying about Technorati. I suspect you’re much the same way.
Anne,
I am with you on wanting a fully-dimensional presence in the world, whether or not it syncs up with existing niches, domains or political perspectives. Living and thinking outside the box makes us better problem-solvers . . . . also more fully alive. Come visit if you like at Diamond-Cut Life http://alison97215.wordpress.com/
best,
Alison
Helen, I’m not sure what made me feel so exposed. Probably not any one post but rather having the book come out, blogging at GigaOM, tweeting, etc. Got to be too much.
Anyway, I think I will just morph this blog into a personal one and move my tech related blogging elsewhere.
Please make sure to let us know where we’ll be able to find your new blog!
Anne, the three links in your post are broken.
I don’t know about the exposure, but for me, I don’t to weblog anymore. I used to write, in-depth stories, long tutorials, multi-page articles. The subjects were about what interested me, but the stories had a beginning, middle, and end. They didn’t make assumptions about the audience, nor did they make assumptions about the environment. I’ve lost all of that with the weblogs.
When I start again, no more comments, no more memes, no more short quips and writing on the thing of the moment–I’ll be writing again. My stories may not be popular, I may not get rich, but at least I’ll be enjoying myself.
Perhaps your issue isn’t the writing so much as you’re also getting burned out on the environment.