Saturday, 29 March 2008
A change is as good as a rest?
For the last 8 or so years, I've had a blog on a site that I grew to despise. Ignoring it's failings, about two years ago, I ended up not using it any more, and eventually, I got the message that I just wasn't using it enough... mostly because I got sent an e-mail to say "You've not updated your blog, and unless you put in an entry in the next couple of days, we're going to get rid of it", and unlike the previous twice I'd got that message, I didn't bother to submit an entry.
Around the same time, I tried to start a Free Software Advocacy Movement called "What's in it for me?", where you could author and share advocacy resources, like leaflets for users or letters to companies, asking them to consider the use of or development of Free or Open Source Software.
Everyone I spoke to about it sounded interested, including the great advocate himself, Jono Bacon, but all of these people wanted to know one thing alone... where's your blog? Having just shut one down, I told people, "I don't have a blog".
A little while ago, I attended a BarCamp, I talked about a project I wanted to start, to develop a new social network, that wasn't centrally located, that communicated between various remote nodes using a combination of personalized RSS feeds delivered over HTTPS, using PGP to encrypt the body of a message. In the run up to the event, it was suggested, if you want to prep people for your talk, then start blogging it... well, of course, I didn't have a blog.
And then, at the BarCamp, there were the guys from North Crew who were pimping their NorthPack Site... which is a blog aggregator. And I started to think, well, maybe I should give this blogging thing another go?
I've vaguely kept up-to-date with a twitter feed but frankly, even that I'm not much good at doing that. I guess what I'm saying is, expect this blog not to have regular postings, but then maybe have a batch all at once.
I'll still be keeping my Twitter thang going on, mostly because it updates my Facebook Status, and at the same time updates my mugshot profile (which should be where almost everything about me ends up).
So, for now, bear with me... I'm still getting used to blogging again. The last time I did this, I came to the conclusion that "only boring people keep diaries". I'm tempted to think this might all change, but... I guess we'll see :)
Jon
Around the same time, I tried to start a Free Software Advocacy Movement called "What's in it for me?", where you could author and share advocacy resources, like leaflets for users or letters to companies, asking them to consider the use of or development of Free or Open Source Software.
Everyone I spoke to about it sounded interested, including the great advocate himself, Jono Bacon, but all of these people wanted to know one thing alone... where's your blog? Having just shut one down, I told people, "I don't have a blog".
A little while ago, I attended a BarCamp, I talked about a project I wanted to start, to develop a new social network, that wasn't centrally located, that communicated between various remote nodes using a combination of personalized RSS feeds delivered over HTTPS, using PGP to encrypt the body of a message. In the run up to the event, it was suggested, if you want to prep people for your talk, then start blogging it... well, of course, I didn't have a blog.
And then, at the BarCamp, there were the guys from North Crew who were pimping their NorthPack Site... which is a blog aggregator. And I started to think, well, maybe I should give this blogging thing another go?
I've vaguely kept up-to-date with a twitter feed but frankly, even that I'm not much good at doing that. I guess what I'm saying is, expect this blog not to have regular postings, but then maybe have a batch all at once.
I'll still be keeping my Twitter thang going on, mostly because it updates my Facebook Status, and at the same time updates my mugshot profile (which should be where almost everything about me ends up).
So, for now, bear with me... I'm still getting used to blogging again. The last time I did this, I came to the conclusion that "only boring people keep diaries". I'm tempted to think this might all change, but... I guess we'll see :)
Jon
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