Ten years ago I was writing several daily blogs:
In 2001, these joined together to become the Internet Time Blog, one of the earliest blogs about learning:
Five years later, writing my book on Informal Learning, I added a blog of the same name. The Informal Learning blog started somewhat idealistically:
“This goes back to Adam & Eve, to the dawn of consciousness. Since our species appeared as babes on the savannah, we have been growing up, ever so slowly. Homo sapiens have been reading What Color is Your Parachute: Eternal Edition, and doing their information interviews for the last 50,000 years. Now it’s time for humanity to take the next step on the path, commit to a direction for the future, and start to work.” (2005)
Soon it settled down. That left me with two nearly indistinguishable blogs. Many a time I could not decide where to post an entry. While there’s considerable overlap in readership, some people read only one of the two.
When a software developer adapts a program in such a way that it can never rejoin its original parent, it’s called forking. (Numerous LMS customers who paid for elaborate customization later found they couldn’t upgrade to new versions. They’d been royally forked.)
Today, this blog is forking away from the Informal Learning blog. Internet Time Blog will become my personal blog. Without realizing it, I’d begun censoring my posts. I didn’t feel free to insert gossip, half-baked ideas, ribald jokes, stream-of-consciousness, and my art into what had become my online brochure. Some clients wouldn’t undertand.
So if you want Jay, stay right here. If you want working smarter and business stuff, go to Informal Learning Blog.
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