I've been blogging since the 90s. My posts have always evolved. In the beginning, I blogged to share the crazy shit I encountered as a tech journalist. Most of those posts were funny or ironic. There was no other place for people to find out that stuff.
Then the information landscape changed. The internet got better. Social emerged. Eventually, just about anybody could find out about just about anything.
Now, the information landscape is changing even more. Social is dying. Blogs are dying. Even the Wikipedia has a head cold. AI has sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
In recent years, I've used this blog for self-promotion. It hasn't gone well. If social is bad for self-promotion, blogs are even worse. So I'm going to stop promoting my work here.
Lately, I've been embracing an everything-in-the-right-place approach to posting. For example, I've been de-emphasizing posting my photography on Instagram, where I'm shadow-banned for criticizing Meta, in favor of Flickr.
(Nobody cares about Flickr, and I have almost no followers there. But the pictures look perfect. I care more about perfect pictures that are available to the public than building a following of people who want to find my pictures.)
In the spirit of posting everything in the right place, I've decided to stop posting my best observations and advice on social, and instead post them here.
As with my Flickr account, I'm going to stop trying to get followers and instead post good stuff from my own brain in public for anyone who's interested.
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