I’ve been blogging more recently. This has emerged from re-reading the blog and realising what a powerful record it provides of otherwise-ephemeral moments. It’s also been interesting to pass an export of this to an LLM and ask it to find patterns.
The entries on this blog go back to 2007, but I started blogging back around 20011. The entries and comments have dried up since most people moved onto Twitter and Facebook, but there’s something valuable about writing openly but in a place that’s not promoted, that has only a tiny audience.
While I’ve consistently produced monthnotes since the start of 2020, I wish I had more incidental posts between those times. I’ve been starting to do more of these. To build up a flow of things that have happened. To share more photographs. There’s still value in the monthnotes, but I also want detailed posts about the things I’ve been up to. I want more things to look back on. My own personal blogging revival.
- I recently went back and re-read the first few years of my blogs but decided not to import them here. Blogging back then was very different, ↩︎