Nostalgia for Blogging

[hartmans]

Recently, I migrated this blog from Livejournal over to Dreamwidth. As part of the process, I was looking back at my blog entries from around 2007 or so.

I miss those days. I miss the days when blogging was more of an interactive community. Comments got exchanged, and at least among my circle of friends people wrote thoughtful, well-considered entries. There was introspection into what was going on in people's lives, as well as technical stuff, as well as just keeping up with people who were important in my life.
Today, we have some of the same thought going into things like Planet Debian, but it's a lot less interactive. Then we have things like Facebook, Twitter, and the more free alternatives. There's interactivity, but it feels like everything has to fit into the length of a single tweet. So it is a lot faster paced and a lot less considered. I find I don't belong to that fast-paced social media as much as I did to the blogs of old.

Comments

Try Wordpress

[acewiza]

Wordpress seems to be ubiquitous in the cyber publishing community. Anybody with an Internet connection and minimal admin skills can easily run their own server with it.

Re: Try Wordpress

[hartmans]

I think it's more finding the people than the technology that's important.
I mean obviously technology influences the social dynamics.
I don't really have a huge desire to run aa Wordpress instance (and probably even less desire to use someone else's Wordpress instance), but I'd do that if I could get a community of readers to interact with.

[eagle]

I keep feeling like I should write more about things other than book reviews and software, but even with comments turned off, the subsequent interactions can feel like a lot. I tend to post my random musings in more private spaces where I know roughly who might respond. It's unfortunate since it creates a closed system where it's hard to add new people to interact with, but wow the experience of saying things on the public Internet is intensely unpleasant these days.