Jason Russell's Blog - Posts Tagged "post"
No Wrongs, Only Write
So I've been meaning to come by here and get a blog underway since August of 2015 if the official Goodreads clock is accurate. A little over two years later I'm finally sitting down to accomplish precisely that (whoever told you authors were sticklers when it comes to deadlines was lying).
And while this is the spot where readers can come to for updates on what I'm working on next, when they expect future releases, sources for inspiration etc. I figured it only fitting to dedicate the first official post to anything but such useful information, instead satisfying my own curiosities about the origin of the whole blog concept itself.
It seems by and large the blog ideal has been replaced by social media. Why waste one's time reading actual sentences and paragraphs when a Tweet doing its best to make the most of 140 characters can tell you all you need to know? Then we're surprised that young people struggle to make a sentence without ridiculous acronyms? Or StoMaSWRA as I've just now coined it.
Anyway, the blog dates back to 1994 in an era where I had yet to secure an email address. Back then it was just known as somebody's personal webpage but there's almost nothing kitschy about that.
The concept of dedicated web logging wouldn't hatch for three more years and it would take two more after that (1999 for all non-math majors) that the term "blog" a combination of the words weB and LOG came to be.
All of this considered, I'm a little more than two years late to the blog party huh? Something more like 23-years late - but who's counting?
So there's my random but hopefully useful bit of web history to kick off my first official blog post. The real question, though, is whether or not I could have managed all this in a single Tweet. I'm thinking not on your life. Er I mean NOYL.
And while this is the spot where readers can come to for updates on what I'm working on next, when they expect future releases, sources for inspiration etc. I figured it only fitting to dedicate the first official post to anything but such useful information, instead satisfying my own curiosities about the origin of the whole blog concept itself.
It seems by and large the blog ideal has been replaced by social media. Why waste one's time reading actual sentences and paragraphs when a Tweet doing its best to make the most of 140 characters can tell you all you need to know? Then we're surprised that young people struggle to make a sentence without ridiculous acronyms? Or StoMaSWRA as I've just now coined it.
Anyway, the blog dates back to 1994 in an era where I had yet to secure an email address. Back then it was just known as somebody's personal webpage but there's almost nothing kitschy about that.
The concept of dedicated web logging wouldn't hatch for three more years and it would take two more after that (1999 for all non-math majors) that the term "blog" a combination of the words weB and LOG came to be.
All of this considered, I'm a little more than two years late to the blog party huh? Something more like 23-years late - but who's counting?
So there's my random but hopefully useful bit of web history to kick off my first official blog post. The real question, though, is whether or not I could have managed all this in a single Tweet. I'm thinking not on your life. Er I mean NOYL.
