I am struggling to keep up with this long-format blogging and self-reflection. It is too time-consuming for the return, I feel. Now, that is most certainly a product of ten-years of my professional life having past without fully integrating the habit of reflection, but the fact remains: I am struggling to maintain this log of reflections.
A recent piece by Jason Kottke, The blog is dead, long live the blog, indicates that my experiences mirror what is happening in the wider sphere of online writing:
Sometime in the past few years, the blog died. In 2014, people will finally notice. Sure, blogs still exist, many of them are excellent, and they will go on existing and being excellent for many years to come. But the function of the blog, the nebulous informational task we all agreed the blog was fulfilling for the past decade, is increasingly being handled by a growing number of disparate media forms that are blog-like but also decidedly not blogs.
I use my Twitter account much more frequently than either my current blog, on a WordPress install, or Facebook — and yet for the type of reflections and logging that I want to do here, Twitter’s 140-characters are too few. If I could only find a way to easily export from WordPress and migrate to Tumblr[1], I would.
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I would also have to be reasonably assured that if Yahoo screws up Tumblr at some future point, I could get my posts out of there, and back into another platform. ↩