12/22/05
Blogtastic
So the house was clean for yesterday's 10 am invasion. Somehow it was a bit of a let down. Oh well, at least it was adult conversation. I also figured I'd be able to finish a certain someone's scarf by Christmas if I managed to knit 60 rows a day...well yesterday I managed 27.
Oh I'll finish...if I have to stay up all night...it will be done!!! >Insert evil laugh< Though not appropriate--it felt like the right thing to do.
The other week I was thinking about how my blog got started...and how in general they got started. I have been journaling, now called blogging, since 1997...back then now blogger or moveable type or live journal...just FTP every day,up loading a new file and updating the archive pages. Blogger made it all so much easier--heck you don't even need to know any HTML to blog nowadays. When Blogger came out and all the popular kids, Prol, Derek, Jason, et al, started to use Blogger and Blogging. I was reluctant...didn't want to just jump on the band wagon. Especially since back then blogging had to involve some sort of links to other websites that these folks went to...and some sort of commentary. Heck all I did was journal about my day and the weird off ball thoughts that roamed my head. (They were genius, much funnier than the posts now...go check out the archives--tell me I am wrong!! Some earlier stuff,i.e., the great Austin II and the Dublin Meatpackers adventures have been lost--back then free hosting with geocities and my IP surfree webspace, both now defunct) THEN I saw how much FUN and EASIER blogger was...and tried every so often to actually include a link. Then it all turned into journals anyway. Then I had kids and got boring.
What's sad, is I have been doing this for nearly ten years...okay more like 8, and I still have NO TRAFFIC and no one but 15 people a day come to read me!!! Commence with the pity party!!
Yesterday I read a bit about how blogging is the new evil that has been spawned by the internet...this coming from school administrations. Last month Forbes ran a story that blogs were the bane of businesses. Next month the Bushies will declare blogs to be the tools of terrorists. (Grin, I doubt that..maybe in 6 months--smirk. I had to--I may support Bush, but I have join the fun sometime.) Anyhoo back to schools banning blogs, most ban students from using school computers to blog. Some schools have banned their student's from blogging entirely. Which is ridiculous and a fragrant breach of privacy and liberty...yes kids have no rights (scary but true), but schools do NOT have the right to tell MY kids that they can't do something in their non school time. I guess blogs in schools have become tools of bullies and mean girls that love to spread gossip. Well gee the internet has replaced notes and scribbles on the bathroom walls. I can understand schools banning blogging using their computers...it's in their purview, but they are losing a valuable teaching tool. Creating a blog can teach kids about HTML, grammar, communication, online safety/etticite (please how do I spell this!?!?!) edit: etiquette. Thanks Q!. And then when they grow up, they won't continue to abuse blogs.
Amazing I have blogged twice today and posted a HUGE post. I really want to add more to this site...a knitting corner, some more easter eggs, and update things that are so old they are from last century...but it's nearly Christmas and I have a scarf to FINISH!!! HAHAAHAH!!!
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