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Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

#301

Personal sites are dead because the Internet search is broken. I personal sites could easily be found, and filtered, or sorted to provide interesting ones, then Personal sites would be booming. That is why I created my own domains list: https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database It contains links with properties in JSON. I can find personal things using "personal" tags. I can filter them using numerical "pa…

Can always go back to the days of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_directory

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

#304
- to structure your thoughts

- document them for a future you

- learn to better do technical communication with people which might not be experts on the specific topic (through without feedback this is just so so)

- sometimes to give HR more insight into your skills

which reminds me I wanted to setup a blog for a long while, I originally wanted to have some "fun" with setup, theming etc. but I think I just should start with some default template until I have time to have "fun" with the setup. Then I would at least already write something....

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

#306
I have tried many times to start a blog. I usually manage to eek out one or two articles before getting utterly stuck.

I have lots of things I want to write about but I feel completely anxious about putting my ideas out there, even got relatively simple, straightforward things.

How do you push through the anxiety and actually put things out there?

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

#307
Surface area. Networking. Openness to those that for whatever reason click and might become friends, business associates and romantic partners. Few will click, but those few will have shown at least some interest in you and what you do. It took divorce and loneliness for me to understand the concept of surface area, to exist, to not be invisible and anonymous, but create tiny opportunities for connection. It's pretty much all we can do as busy adults.

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

#308
I've been thinking about starting an anonymous diary where I can write down what happens in my life and my thoughts, but I really don't want anyone to connect it with my identity. Anyone had experience with that? Did you publish on .onion network or how did you do it?

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

#309

do not lie to yourself. just Eject Google (the monolith of oppression erected by the fools who use it) into the Sun. the globalized space of the internet is detrimental to cultures, so it needs to be beheaded. local search engines for every country!

Or just small specialized search engines for categories of knowledge with some shared advertising / revenue model.

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

#310
post #307

Surface area. Networking. Openness to those that for whatever reason click and might become friends, business associates and romantic partners. Few will click, but those few will have shown at least some interest in you and what you do. It took divorce and loneliness for me to understand the concept of surface area, to exist, to not be invisible and anonymous, but create tiny opportunities for connection. It's pretty…

Is this a way to make me feel less bad about gaining a bit too much weight?

Joking apart this is a very valid point, often you can just fall onto something where people have taken the time to put something out there, you documented your thought or your little haven of work, whatever it is, for other to find eventually. It is nice and valuable.

In a day and age where everything needs to have meaning or be productive, it is healthy to make things that serve no other purpose but to be. It will be eventually lost to time and noise, but so is everyone existence on this earth.

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