Posts tagged “writing”
2009 was a light year for blogging, with Twitter and Hacker News absorbing most of my output. Highlights included predicting Twitter's tagline change, writing a flawed but decent short story, and posts on journalism's death, immigration, the App Store, and Avatar.
My blog turns 7: 1,298 posts, 350,000 words, more than a quarter of my life documented. It's now my longest sustained personal endeavor. I've changed enormously in that time, but the blog outlasted every school, job, and home I've had.
Been absent, but hope to post more soon.
A speculative fiction setup tracing humanity's future evolution: rising IQs lead to an autism pandemic, prompting genetic engineering to restore emotional intelligence. The result is a new breed of "geemo" superstars with Profound Empathic Ability. Introducing Anna Gajewski, born 2215, whose story is just beginning.
Five years, 946 posts. Not too shabby.
Relaxing in Trinidad, minimal internet, heading to Tobago tomorrow. Posts and photos coming when I'm back in the land of broadband.
Journalists are now covering bloggers and becoming bloggers themselves. That's because journalists and bloggers are the same thing: writers. Blogging isn't journalism, but sometimes bloggers produce journalism, and sometimes journalists don't. Blogs have simply lowered the barrier to publishing. Being published is no longer special.
Bored of the internet. Done. Blog's closed. Enjoy the archives.
I make resolutions every year but usually forget them, so this time I'm publishing them. I want to explore subjects I love but don't need for work, like comic books, architecture, and computing history. I also want to write more, targeting one blog post per day across my five blogs.
Been neglecting the blog, but the linklog on the right deserves your attention in the meantime. Seriously, go look at it.
I wrote a 13,000-word play called "Code." It's pretentious, plotless, and assumes you've read The Selfish Gene. The characters are just vehicles for ideas. Available in several formats. Tell me what you think.
My blog turns three today. Rather than pretend you care, here's a self-indulgent timeline of my greatest hits anyway, from my first post in 2001 through politics, poetry, crushes, and controversies. Frequency of interesting posts seems to be increasing. Whether that's perspective or improvement, you decide.
Got backed up waiting on a site update that got delayed, so here's a week's worth of posts all at once. Sorry!
Maybe blogs aren't journalism but a new kind of social performance: "here I am, do you like me?" If so, I'm doing mine wrong.
Bloggers are like DJs, sampling and remixing the best of the web. Gibson thinks blogging is like boiling a kettle with the lid off, wasting creative steam. Both metaphors probably apply to me. Google suggests there's no shortage of ways to describe what we do here.
My blog has gotten embarrassingly boring lately. I blogged my lunch twice. Time to browse more, think more, and stop the pedestrian cat-blogging nonsense.
I've gone from horrified fascination to genuine enthrallment with this columnist. Today's highlight: a list of freaky merger jokes, including Polygram Records, Warner Brothers and Keebler combining to form "Poly-Warner-Cracker."
Day 3 at IBM, posting from the office since my accommodation only has dialup. Found a fascinating first-hand account of an epileptic seizure written by the person experiencing it in real time. Beautiful writing, terrifying to imagine witnessing it live.
Revising is boring.
Started a blog to keep content fresh and turn rants into articles. This first post is pretty pathetic, but hopefully things improve from here.
