Lookin’ for a New Sensation
Working on my blog has always been fun, but somehow, I’ve been letting work take over and not doing as much writing and blogging as before. It’s hard to keep up with all the websites, the ones I used to enjoy skimming in the morning while having coffee and a bagel. But with dogs to walk and a host of meetings that often start in the morning, I just have been having trouble carving out time for me to write.
So I’m even writing this post so that I’ve written something because I cannot help but think that if I just keep writing, eventually I’ll find a writing grove again and get to it. I also think that part of this move away from my blog has occurred as a direct reflection of how much time I spend on Facebook. I mean, I’ve had a Facebook account since the site was FaceTablet, and let me tell you, the SuperPokes from Moses get pretty annoying after a while, but only recently, in the last 6 months, have I begun to spend serious amounts of time on it, mostly b/c my London students are on there and because, increasingly, so are my friends from graduate school and from high school. These three groups keep me fairly active, which is great b/c I know they wouldn’t ever be avid readers of my blog.
But that also means that so many of the things I used to think to blog about now end up in Facebook instead, read by folks there. Sadly, Facebook doesn’t provide a suffient archiving and searching system, so much of what’s posted there feels to me even more ephemeral than a blog. At least here, I can search for old posts and pictures. On Facebook, much of the day-to-day content is just lost, unless you try to surf backward in slow and laborious fashion for a long time. Why can’t I search for my past status updates? Notes? Or even better, why can’t I get a straight feed of my previous status updates? I think the status update is such an interesting genre, one I’d really like to study, but now do you get to them? Hmmm …
So trying harder to keep blogging in the hopes that I’ll find the right balance or flow between my various techno-sordations …
