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A blog is a lot like a baby. You can’t really express to someone who doesn’t have one what it’s like and, despite all of the reference material about how to nurture one, you don’t really begin to figure it out until you’ve had one for a while.
I wrote my first, brief entry here about ten months ago with a plan to simply share articles that I found interesting and to comment briefly on them. Occasionally I did write some longer pieces which were mostly original content, but these have been rare.
Last night I started a Tumblr and experienced an epiphany; I need to write more from personal experience, not from content I find on the web. While I will now let that Tumblr page die, I will generally and loosely incorporate its theme here.
An unchronological diary of personal photos and thoughts without any URLs or content aided by web search.
This realization has been emerging for several weeks but I was pushed to action by Louis Gray’s excellent write-up today, Growing Grumblings on Tech News Don’t Address Incentives.
One of the easiest things for tech blogs to do is repeat updates from the official blogs of interesting companies, add a few internal links to previous coverage they have done on that topic, add a paragraph or two of analysis, and hit the post button.
It’s not just tech blogs that do this, you’ll find this practice across many blog genres. I’ve done it many times as well even though I’ve tried to offer sincere analysis and a thoughtful perspective on the items I’ve referenced.
The Starnes is now starnes.com and this site’s transformation began with the previous entry, Childhood Memories Of A Nudist Beach.
I will still cover some of my favorite subjects like space, physics, tech and the future of everything, but will also share some of the things I have learned over my brief forty-three years. If I do it right, each post will offer something meaningful and maybe something you’ve never considered before.
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Blogs And Babies: This One’s Growing Up
A blog is a lot like a baby. You can’t really express to someone who doesn’t have one what it’s like and, despite all of the reference material about how to nurture one, you don’t really begin to figure it out until you’ve had one for a while.
I wrote my first, brief entry here about ten months ago with a plan to simply share articles that I found interesting and to comment briefly on them. Occasionally I did write some longer pieces which were mostly original content, but these have been rare.
Last night I started a Tumblr and experienced an epiphany; I need to write more from personal experience, not from content I find on the web. While I will now let that Tumblr page die, I will generally and loosely incorporate its theme here.
This realization has been emerging for several weeks but I was pushed to action by Louis Gray’s excellent write-up today, Growing Grumblings on Tech News Don’t Address Incentives.
It’s not just tech blogs that do this, you’ll find this practice across many blog genres. I’ve done it many times as well even though I’ve tried to offer sincere analysis and a thoughtful perspective on the items I’ve referenced.
The Starnes is now starnes.com and this site’s transformation began with the previous entry, Childhood Memories Of A Nudist Beach.
I will still cover some of my favorite subjects like space, physics, tech and the future of everything, but will also share some of the things I have learned over my brief forty-three years. If I do it right, each post will offer something meaningful and maybe something you’ve never considered before.
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