It’s been over three years since I’ve actively blogged. My two blog domains – doctortongue.com and theblablab.com – both point here, and in evaluating what to do about the whole blog vs. no blog thing, I noticed timestamps from 2006. It really doesn’t seem that long ago, but I read it on the Internet, so it must be true. Or at least easily believed and regurgitated.
I’d pretty much abandoned blogging for lack of content. When I was really – and I mean REALLY, as in multiple times a day – blogging, I seemed to have lots of easy fodder with which to generate posts. It was almost a normal part of my day, to the point where I felt guilty if I didn’t post something significant daily.
It was also something I did to keep in touch with friends and family. My brother and I hardly spoke on the phone because he could read my goings-on here, and he slept on his couch after work, so it’s not like he had much to tell me. Even my parents would occasionally read a post or two (and yes, I’m aware of the risks in that).
Then came MySpace. Facebook. Twitter. My blogging ceased, as did that of many of my fellow bloggers, some who were far more prodigious than I was. For the last couple of years, Facebook, Twitter and other social media were my conduits of choice, but all have fallen out of favour except for Twitter.
Facebook served a purpose, a quick ‘n’ dirty publishing and communication tool that had the unfortunate side effect of luring me completely away from blogging. My daily (and then some) blog posts became bite-sized status updates, and I didn’t mind. For a while. But as Facebook gets polluted with more and more apps, as a good chunk of my friends list starts to wane into inactivity, and as those who remain active become even worse (if that was possible) spellers, I feel the winds of change whipping up once more.
I don’t want to give up on Facebook completely, since too many people rely on it to organize events and just keep in touch. I’m not foolish enough to imagine that my entire Facebook friends list will follow me here and use my comments to interact with me. There are bands and venues that now use Facebook almost exclusively for promotion, and there’s no way I’m giving up that connection.
But I do want to reduce my Facebook dependency, and that means having an alternate voice. So here we are.
I’d like to keep my old blogs and their posts accessible, but until I can sucker ruzz into reconstructing them for me, the only posts that you’ll see on here will be from today on. It’s Feb. 1, and I can’t help being annoyed that I didn’t get to this a month ago so I could start anew on the first day of the year. And, if you believe decades start with the 0 year rather than ending with it, the first day of the decade. That would’ve been nice. /grr
Anyway, welcome, and welcome back. Thanks for stopping by. Stay tuned.
