Sit with a cup of tea and write until the page is full. My apologies to anyone who reads this, it's not intended as a typical internet publication. Rather, it's an empty input box that is going to be filled up with words just until it's full. At that point I'll hit the "publish" button and it will disappear into the mists of time.
Blogging isn't what it once was, nor will it ever be again. The search engines don't care about blogs and there's no honest advertising revenue to prop them up. Most of the infrastructure that propelled blogs along has been dismantled or left to go fallow. With that there's no motivation to keep things rolling on a regular basis on your own.
I am intrigued by Les Orchard's idea of making a stream of blog output out of a patchwork of input tools. He's a serial enthusiast and will set up something new for the sake of doing something new, rather than keep a single blog going on a narrow topic with a consistent look and feel. If you output is "first post" across a lot of tools, there's hope to get enough interesting content just from the new tooling.
In retrospect I'm mostly disappointed that blogs ended up being so disjointed and so ephemeral that it was rarely the right thing to do to look at old work output. The daily blog turned into so much fishwrap so rapidly that it was nearly obsoleted by the time you wrote it. Web writing tools did not create the intricately interconnected evolving storyline by themselves. It's mostly like splattering words on a canvas and hoping that some of them stick.
This particular word salad that you are reading will run five paragraphs, typed in a single sitting into Typepad, an old-fashioned blogging tool that was once meant for intense daily use. I have more than a dozen blogs in various states of suspended animation, ready to be done or ready to be revived or taken offline. While it would be nice to see another golden age of personal writing, it seems unlikely. Thus the occasional desire to just hit "publish" and know that no one will likely read the output.
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