WTF?! The blogosphere is always having “conversations” about the demise of the MSM and newspapers and yet all the RSS readers feature a newspaper-like mode. WTF?! I like to receive my feeds as email in Entourage or good old Outlook via FeedWinder.
Being more of a fox then a hedgehog I thought it better to start a separate blog for my more philosophical musings. This is it. You can find more about the software I have publicly released at blog.unixpoet.com.
Some may question the wisdom of starting a second blog if I can’t keep the first one updated. The blog.unixpoet.com will be used to announce updates and new software releases, while this one will be updated much more often; it will be more in the spirit of other blogs, i.e., full of unsupported assertians and half-baked opinions ; )
Which reminds me: are bloggers journalists?
Do I consider myself a journalist?
No.
Simply, I am a writer. I, like most bloggers, write my opinions down, no facts or proofs to persuade the reader except the post’s own logic and internal conisistency, and the reader’s common sense. Why? I don’t know for sure but I have my suspicians. I would much prefer to write an essay a month like the excellent writer and essayist Paul Graham.
In a way writing a blog is a liability. 80% of the blogs are destined to be read by only a few people, but Google being omniscient, an obscure post can be given new life, something to quote back at you. I wish I could tell search engines to only remember a post a couple of years and then forget. Or I could just stop writing…