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I’m always tough on myself when I neglect this blog, but I’ve just realised that although I have let things slide a bit here lately, I’ve actually been blogging a lot - at work. For example since Monday I have written EIGHT blog posts (and that’s just for our staff blog) and written quite a few comments. I always forget this blogging, as though it doesn’t count, somehow.
* read to the tune of “Rolling, rolling, rolling”.
The word weblog is ten years old today! I learned this from Scoble, who links to an article listing Jorn Barger’s Ten Tips for Novice Bloggers. (Jorn Barger is the person who coined the word weblog.)
Barger’s second tip is interesting:
2. You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere … but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.
I guess this comes from Barger’s style of blogging - posting links - blogs have evolved over the last ten years, and no doubt will continue to evolve. As Scoble says:
Truth is that this form of communication is still in its infancy. Imagine talking about newspapers just 10 years after they were developed and thinking “this is it, no more to do.” Yeah, right.
I wonder if/how I’ll be blogging ten years hence!
I was lamenting the fact that I hadn’t managed to blog for a couple of days, then realised that I have been blogging - just not here. In the last two days I’ve written three blog posts, one at LINT and two at work (on intranet so can’t link ‘em) and made minor corrections to another couple of blog posts, written by a colleague.
So there.
