- For me, blogging has changed. It’s not that I’ve stopped altogether, it’s that it’s fragmented. I blog, microblog, on Twitter mostly, with occasional forays into FriendFeed and Facebook.
- And yet when I think of giving up this space, I find I don’t want to. All the other spaces aren’t 100% mine. This one is.
- Are people still subscribed to this blog, using their RSS readers? I find that if I tweet about a new post it might get some attention, if I don’t, I don’t know if it does. (Of course it’s entirely likely that people are still subscribed, just that the number of comment-worthy posts has declined here.)
- I have also been maintaining a paper diary and writing quite a bit. Over the past year there were a few things I wasn’t comfortable with sharing online and the diary was a great outlet. I seem to have gotten back into this habit. I’m enjoying it, and it gives me more reason to use a fountain pen.
- Reading, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have changed – I am continuing to enjoy bound paper books. Not sure if, or when I will switch to ebooks. If ever. 21 books read so far this year.
- It’s undeniable that ebooks would mean that the major nightmare of having to move and store books would no longer be a problem…
- However I don’t know if an ebook will ever replicate the complete tactile experience of reading for me. (Shall have to try.)
- It’s very humid tonight. I am sweaty and sticky.
- I love it when doing a task you dislike, reinforces how much you like the tasks you do like.
- I’m between books, what shall I read next?
- The house no longer feels like a home. Hopefully the move goes well. I can’t wait to start the process of setting into the new place.
Sorry it’s a bit disjointed. I did say they were idle thoughts. (written last night)
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These are not idle thoughts at all! – they’re very useful and I’m teetering on a move to a microblog for some of the same reasons (some a little different). Same for me regarding the paper diary, it is a useful exercise and I’m going to keep doing it, as my blog wasn’t suited to that anyhow.
I don’t find Twitter that satisfying and I get annoyed when new people want to read the tweets – it’s a different kind of conversation, of course it must be awfully useful for mobile microblogging but I don’t do that, so I’m a bit at cross-purposes with it. For that reason I think I need to return to blogging, but maybe not in the way I used to. (Will send you a link to show you what I mean – I haven’t quite crossed over yet!)
FWIW I sub to your RSS. I find my blog is heavily books-I-read these days. I just don’t find a lot to say or time to say it. But I don’t want to give it away.
I’m still subscribed by RSS. Have you ever thought of using feedburner for rss, and then you can see your rss stats in there 🙂
Though I mainly put it on my personal blog so that people (grandma, parents) could subscribe by email to the feed.
In other news, I want to keep blogging even though I’ve stopped travelling(well, not permanently), though I still haven’t finished blogging about the trip, gah!!
Keep on blogging 🙂
Also by RSS…of course 🙂 My blog has always had a fitful existence…some months lots of updates, some updates bugger al. As you say, it is a unique space of one’s own. I have no idea how many people read mine nor do I care. It’s my space to do with as I please. Back when I used to handcode my blog, I wrote a script to grab the stats from the logs and was able to distinguish between people reading the page and people getting the feed. Now I have no idea 🙂
I hope you don’t abandon your blog – I’m staying away from Twitter in an attempt to limit my Internet consumption, and I check here every day. I also prefer thoughtful and longer articles to short bursts of commentary, and the animal pictures. I can sympathise with the humidity, it has been very muggy in Brisbane lately with all the rain, and I too am contemplating moving in the very near future, so you have my fellow-feeling for that as well. Books take so many more boxes than you think they will.
I’m another RSS reader. I skim through my subscriptions really quickly and only comment if something pops immediately to mind because there’s another 30-odd posts to read and then work to do; but I do read!
I am a reader over RSS! I feel you on having a space that’s my own, even if I don’t post to it frequently enough.
Wow, thanks for telling me you’re still reading. Thank goodness for RSS, I say, it does help you keep track of wayward blogs quite well 🙂
genevieve I look forward to reading your writing in whatever incarnation it takes.
Penny, time is the major factor, isn’t it? I have also been very bad with my book circle reading thus far. Part of the problem has been that I thought I’d borrow the books instead of buying, and there is a waitlist at the public library…
Simone and snail, I have thought about feedburner but that was at a point where I was deliberately not letting myself get all competitive and stats-driven with this blog, so I decided I didn’t want to know…
Sheena you should see all the empty boxes now. I think there are 100s!!
Thanks for stopping by Deborah 🙂
Kim your blog looks interesting, are you a fountain pen lover as well?