September 28
My life is full. Mostly it is private: my home life with my wife and 3 year old daughter? Private. My work? Very private. So what is the point of blogging? I am hoping that I can sand off some of my insularity and put some thoughts up here.
In the past I've provided three types of blogging:
- Generally sparse and not very interesting.
- The time I ranted about (at?) Cory Doctorow saying (incoherently) that a country should be able to use a Microsoft/foreign/common product to distribute and manipulate public assets and that to deny that was, well, wrong. This resulted in a small amount of traffic, huge by my normal standards, about 40K uniques over a few months. I promised a follow up but never could come up with something that would be helpful to anyone. I set the conversation up with unsupportable framing and with a nasty tone and there is no apparent way to rescure the conversation from that.
- The time Libby was born at 6 months on the dot and we lived in hospitaland for months. This generated about equal traffic as the stupid post described above and lasted longer.
I'm considering how to deliver a fourth type, something regular, valuable and unsensational.
Best,
Cort