The Itch Is Scratched
Back in April 2010 I started this blog with the opening statement…
Welcome to my new blog. It’s about my 10th. The chances of its long-term survival are bleak I’m afraid. The good news is that you’re reading the very first post so my enthusiasm and itch-to-write is currently completely disguising the time-investment required to keep on posting! I’m also, once again, under the utter disbelief that this time will be different. I guess we’ll see…
The itch is now scratched. It’s time to do something different around here. This will be the last post to this blog.
My reasons are:
Who am I talking to? I appreciate those that took the time to comment on my posts but (personal) blogging platforms just aren’t a place that reward feedback or ongoing conversation. Social networks are where that happens. I get more response from a tweet of 140 characters than I do a 200 word article that took me an hour to write.
Social noise is becoming extreme these days. Everyone’s following Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, all their favourite news sites, e-mail, instant messages, iPhone alerts, … it goes on and on. There is a never-ending and increasingly overwhelming amount of information to interact with and consume. It’s crazy. And it means folk only have time to focus on the most relevant and the most important (to them). My day to day activities qualify in neither category in the vast majority of people’s minds. I won’t beat myself up about that because that’s the case for 99% of us in this world.
I may as well leave industry commentary to the journalists. There are writers who get paid to comment on and report industry events to the extent I sometimes try. They have the advantage of time and reputation on their side. I do enjoy writing and that’s often enough (to express myself/opinion) but perhaps I’d be better seeking out an already-established avenue to do that – or simply surpress it and focus on bigger goals.
Which brings me onto the primary reason for this decision… I’m going underground to focus on pet projects. I’ve got some interesting ideas that I’ve been developing lately and I plan to push a few of them over the line.
I’ll be updating this website soon to be more project portfolio, less blog.
Update: I’m now redirecting my root domain elsewhere. I’ll leave this blog in place for the time being. Maybe I’ll come back to it someday.
Update 2: I’m back :)
