Not to get all Jason Calicanisy here, but I’ve been thinking for a while now about my blog and blogging in general (NERD ALERT!). More specifically what the latter means these days, and as such, and what to do with the former.
It’s been ages since I posted anything even vaguely unique or substantive - something that wasn’t a just quick snippet, photo, video, or link. Which is why I have found myself moving more towards posting shorter, more frequent items to Twitter and Flickr, and finding a lot more satisfaction in doing so (though this wasn’t always the case).
Paul Boutin said it well in a recent Wired article:
Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It’s almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.
I think this is pretty dead on, particularly the last line, and so from now on, this site will mainly lay in state, and my new short-form world will exist on AndrewTeman.COM. Be sure and update your RSS feeds here if you want to follow along. It’s riveting I know.

The new site, as I said, will mainly be Twitter updates, Flickr photos, and some ancillary info pulled from my Delicious, Yelp, and Last.FM feeds, nice and simple. Granted there will still be things that I want to get out there that just won’t fit neatly into JPG format, or in 140 character strings, and for that, the blog will remain here in it’s current form, but with grossly sparse updates at very best.
It’s been a good run. Since May of 2004, there have been 815 posts, over 1,200 comments, and well over one million visitors.
See you over at the new place.


Tue, Dec 30, 2008
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