Six years ago, most of my friends thought I was nuts to be writing four blogs but I loved the concept of having a worldwide platform for expressing myself and I felt in my gut that blogging was the start of something big. Several years later, I was among the first to replace my home page with a blog. New items are more interesting than enduring ones, so it made sense at the time.
The blogosphere was very doctrinaire in 2000-2001. “You must post every day.” “You may not change an item after it has been posted.” Argh. I detest perpetuating rules just because “we’ve always done it that way.” I tried a variety of formats on Blogger, TypePad, and WordPress, finally settling down to two public blogs.
The Informal Learning Blog tracks goings on in you-know-what, often examining things under the microscope. The Internet Time Blog is more free-form; it covers anything I find interesting.
The blogs are now accompanied by a wiki and a Ning community. I’ve started calling this my ecosystem, but of course it’s not, for everywhere but the community, it’s me, me, me, me, me. I’m proud to have more blog comments than posts but it’s the readers’ three lines to my fifty. Blogs are a one-way street, and the web is becoming interactive.
Internet Time Blog ∼ Community ∼ Feeds ∼ Keepers ∼ Wiki ∼ About ∼ Contact ∼ Site Map Informal Learning Blog ∼ Ref
I’m struggling to figure out how to configure things to be more open to visitors. Change is on the way but I don’t yet know what it looks like.
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