I'm in the mood for change lately. I suspect it has much to do with my new job; leaving Microsoft where, with retrospect, I think I generally felt like a square peg, starting afresh and enjoying myself. A lot.
Such that I'm planning to relegate the blog back a level and build a classic homepage under which it will continue to exist. This will allow me to more accurately position myself rather than simply being seen as the owner of a once popular but now effectively dormant blog. It'll also allow me the chance to reconnect with photography once more, something that suffered a similar interest trajectory to the blog in recent years.
When I set this blog up nine years ago, blogging was the catch-all bucket for more a more socially interactive and approachable evolution on personal homepages, providing a platform for news, communities and all. But blogging has long since matured and some of its original uses have become largely redundant with the advent of Twitter and Facebook et al, and therefore my blog only represents a part of my personal place and existence on the web whereas back in 2001-2002 it was all of it.
I fully intend to keep the blog and all the (remaining) 2,200 or so posts intact. While I don't read them at all often, the archives are something that I find quite amusing when I browse back through and read things I've written and have little or no recollection of doing so.
My early thirties self apparently had quite a different world view to my early forties self - and it's amazing (if a little embarrassing) how optimistic and full of wonder I was about the then emerging structures of the web back then.
So anyway, I signed up with Squarespace and will build something new soon.
Such that I'm planning to relegate the blog back a level and build a classic homepage under which it will continue to exist. This will allow me to more accurately position myself rather than simply being seen as the owner of a once popular but now effectively dormant blog. It'll also allow me the chance to reconnect with photography once more, something that suffered a similar interest trajectory to the blog in recent years.
When I set this blog up nine years ago, blogging was the catch-all bucket for more a more socially interactive and approachable evolution on personal homepages, providing a platform for news, communities and all. But blogging has long since matured and some of its original uses have become largely redundant with the advent of Twitter and Facebook et al, and therefore my blog only represents a part of my personal place and existence on the web whereas back in 2001-2002 it was all of it.
I fully intend to keep the blog and all the (remaining) 2,200 or so posts intact. While I don't read them at all often, the archives are something that I find quite amusing when I browse back through and read things I've written and have little or no recollection of doing so.
My early thirties self apparently had quite a different world view to my early forties self - and it's amazing (if a little embarrassing) how optimistic and full of wonder I was about the then emerging structures of the web back then.
So anyway, I signed up with Squarespace and will build something new soon.