Conversations with the future.
A few months ago one of my younger coworkers said to me “No one used e-mail before 2000. ” I laughed at him, and explained that no only did we have email, but I had met my first husband through match.com in 1998.
I’ve had an internet presence nearly as long. I moved to my own domain in 2000, and blogging came shortly after. I’ve been at this for over 10 years. From blogger to wordpress, typepad to handcoded html. (My blogger profile was created in November of 2009, I hand coded before that.I’ve combined blogs, split blogs, started a million livejournals and jumped the bandwagon for social media projects that sailed and failed. (When’s the last time you were on Friendster? Orkut? Multiply?)
In some ways I feel like done. I figured I’d return to blogging, both here and at FatandCrafty when the quarter ended, that my creativity would return and I’d be ready to share with you what I’m up to. It even crossed my mind that I could share the excitement of my new program, the goonies vacation I just took, and my plans to take over the world this summer.
All I can think is that I’m tired. Ten years has been a good run, impressive that I’ve kept at it for so long, even with stagnant periods. I’m not sure I’m going to get my groove back. I feel a responsibility to engage in information culture as part of my new degree, but there are new technologies i can study and explore. Maybe its time to give one of those a turn.
Maybe it’s time to return Seattlejo.com to static content, FatAndCrafty too. To hear my take on the world, you’d have to email me, or actually engage with me in real life. With all the shakeups in my life recently it seems natural that I need a shake up here too.
I’m not making any changes tonight nor tomorrow, but these whisperings are on my mind, and in my heart.
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