Introduction
A blog post by Dan Cederholm last month struck a chord with me, though I didn’t realize it at the time. In fact, it wasn’t until I met Lloyd Budd at WordCamp Victoria this morning that I understood the underlying though.
Dan wrote:
Remember when blogs were more casual and conversational? Before a post’s purpose was to grab search engine clicks or to promise “99 Answers to Your Problem That We’re Telling You You’re Having”. Yeah. I’d like to get back to that here.
I never had a blog back in those days, but I was sure reading them, and I do remember what it was like. It was weird and it was good.
Lloyd’s contribution was a comment about the WordPress.com stats he monitors. He said that he cares most about how much people communicate each day using the software he helps develop, not about how many users sign up, or how many pay for upgrades. (Turns out he’s said this more than once).
These two seemingly-unrelated comments were the catalyst to start this blog.
Part of the blog will be about web development, specifically sharing back some of the techniques I’ve picked up over fifteen(!) years of building web sites. And part of the blog will be about intellectual development, namely the various articles and such that I find thought-provoking and enlightening.
My hunch is that amateur intellectualism and code don’t mix too well, but there’s only one way to find out.
Though it seems a bit odd given your length of years developing sites, Welcome to the Blogosphere! It is indeed much changed since I first got here in 2002, but there are still lots of real conversations, real people and plenty of amateur intellectualism to be found, at least where I try to hang out ;-)