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Backpedalling first: (spelling on that?)
Blogging. It ain't that bad. Writing for the sake of it is better - both can be done, prioritizing *just* writing helped me immensely.
But, (start: clear message)
Writing online, blogging, is immensely beneficial to anyone/everyone online in 2024 (and before, and beyond) because it offers one a "full spectrum" page, entry to elaborate on ALL things they want to discuss, and ALL viewpoints they agree/disagree with. All manner of mental flow and ephemera can be exhaled there (I love using that word, always). Instead of small updates, instead of expected-then-not-welcome responses on social media (big and small), or no responses at all, instead of self-conscious statements: a blog. Untethered, unfiltered, unafraid and un-ending (seemingly, at times). Thoughts mean words, words/thoughts have nuance and ebb and flow and mental-to-text fermentation - a process like that of thinking *deeply* about a subject, but just making the thoughts/words *mean* more by making them real (into text). (and yes that sounds bizarre, of course thoughts are real, in terms of what they are; thoughts - but putting them into writing has it's own depth of meaning).
Point here, a true canvas for one's views and perceptions - about any subject. Nothing to hamper or tamper with what gets written.
~bartender, coffee. thank you
I have been writing on the internet for as long as I had access to it, which is a *really* long time ago! Early 90s?
Even before I had my first modem, as a teenager I would go to telnet clubs.
I never considered myself a writer: writing on the internet to me was a way to seek human connection outside of the small boundaries of the tiny village where I grew up.
When I was blogging more constantly, it was mostly to share interesting or potentially useful stuff with others ("Look at this great book I read", "Here is a piece of software that works really well", "This project is really cool...").
Meanwhile, I'd document my own life (on and off, very inconsistently) with pen and paper on a journal.
The past few years I stopped doing any of these things, because of burnout and other reasons and I kind of miss it.
I miss being able to look back and see how I have grown and changed.
I have it as a goal for this year to go back to documenting my life, I think I might just do it online again - it won't be structured blogs anymore, but perhaps the things I share will still help someone, somewhere.
If not, well, it will just be a mix of screaming into the void and/or getting a different perspective on things if anyone ends up reading my thoughts.
I've felt that way on and off, but the motivation became a so-called "damped sinusoid" somewhere along the line - the oscilloscope reporting "damned near flat" at this point. My desire to write is in desperate need of like-minded defibrillation, but my fingers are fused from crossing 'em.
A few hopefully appreciably constructed sentences of reply is going to have to do.
~theoddballphilosopher wrote (thread):
What I admire about this website is the simplicity of it. Because...it's purpose is simple, used to write entry blogs and literally nothing else. Nothing to distract you.