Tomorrow, some tests early and several Dog Support conversations. It slowed just before the holidays and is picking up again.
I’m very much enjoying the color and light pictures, thanks for your very kind words.
I’ve also been offering a visiting lecturer spot at Bishop Gibbons this coming semester. Sue was offering a media arts and photography course and invested me to speak on blogging and photography and digital media.
She wants me to talk about using blogging and pictures to do good. I love working with Sue. She is a good witch, everything she touches shines and turns to gold.
I’m in. Maria will be teaching art and sewing and quilting. See you tomorrow:
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Syllabus for the class I’ll be lecturing in at Bishop Gibbons.
You might want to alter the syllabus so as not to refer to blogs as an “emerging technology.” Blogs were “emerging” in 2006. At this point in time, they’re mostly considered a quaint relic. Substacks have replaced blogs by all conceivable measurements.
I don’t wish to alter the syllabus since I didn’t write it and don’t agree with you.
In the scope of history, digital technology is emerging for sure, including incorporating substacks. You seem not to know what you are talking about.
As a book writer, former journalist, and blogger since 2007, I can’t imagine how anyone would disagree with the idea of blogs emerging and evolving. Mine certainly is. Hundreds of millions of blogs are operating in America; mine is growing all the time, and the kids are very interested in them.
What planet do you live on, or what bubble?
I hope you’re not teaching this bs to kids; a substack is an e-mail newsletter platform that is being incorporated into millions of blogs, not replacing them. Blogs are growing like wildflower as almost all “conceivable measurements” show. Do some homework.
According to some of the latest figures from Growth Badger, there are over 600 million online blogs across different platforms such as WordPress, Blogger, or Livejournal. Out of over 1.7 billion websites, 600 million are blogs; Tumblr alone is home to over 400 million blogs.
Here are some “conceivable measurements” for you to consider Alex:
There are more than 600 million online blogs across different platforms such as WordPress, Blogger, or Livejournal, according to some of the latest figures from Growth Badger. Out of over 1.7 billion websites, 600 million are blogs; Tumblr alone is home to over 400 million blogs.
Jon, you’re embarrassing yourself and showing yourself to be out of touch. Pundits have considered blogs largely dead for at least the past five years. Many of those blogs that you’re citing have been abandoned. Do you have any idea how long it’s been since LiveJournal was active? Three quarters of the blogs on Tumblr have been abandoned–Tumblr has become a punch line. Stop quoting things that you just pick up from a quick Google and actually try to do some research on the industry. This is a long way of saying “ok, Boomer.” You really have no idea what you’re talking about, and what’s worse, you don’t even know what you don’t know.
Josh, I’m a pundit, as it happens, who has written for Wired, Rolling Stone, Slate, and several other publications about the media, although I am getting older for sure. Are you shaming me for that?
I might well be out of touch. It’s not really for me to say. But I can live with it if it’s true. I suspect it would be the end of the world for you. I write about what I know; you can take it or leave it. I don’t argue with angry strangers on social media; it’s a waste of life. I love my blog, and it is doing very well for me. My many thousands of readers will be sorry to hear I’m finished and the blog is no longer real. The donkeys and sheep also.
But I’m not quite ready to disappear into the digital morass.
It’s true, I don’t know how not to know what I don’t know, and I don’t know what that even means.
The blogs I know, including mine, are vital and growing, Tumblr and you aside. I am devoted to mine. You have a point about Google; it’s often lazy and easy but very helpful when there is a subject like this that I have absolutely no interest in researching or arguing about. I’m busy, Josh, I have a life I love, my photos too, and that takes up a lot of time.
My blog has never been better or busier.
If my days are over, I’ll know it soon enough and don’t really need your guidance and input, and I’ll move on once again — too snarky for me.
I’m eager to teach my class about blogs as I know them and how to try to use them for good. Being snide and arrogant is not the same as being smart or all-knowing; that’s a high price to pay, even if you’re right. Your contempt is showing. Truly, Josh, that’s no way to win an argument.
Believe me; it will take much more than you or the future of blogs to embarrass me. That’s a big ego you have. I’m looking forward to class and will certainly include your post in my teaching for many reasons. They need to know what it is like out there, and they will discover their own truths, believe me. Best, Jon
What is really wonderful about this is that a -mover- in the community has pulled a lot of locals who are specialized in new technologies etc to train the young. Many of these people were lost in how to use these new systems, how to develop them further, and desperate and so voted for the Former Guy. We all need a Sue Silverstein or a few in our community.
Making films for Netflix. Will she be teaching via Zoom so elders like me can take her class.
Gosh, checking this blog is the highlight of my morning. Who knew the day started with something that is already out of date. These readers are raising a great point. What’s modern? And now that we know that and have it all, where do we go with it from here in our brave new world? This Boomer’s head is spinning at the thought. She’d better go fix herself some oatmeal.
Thanks, Mary, I’m afraid you’ll have to put up with me for a good long while yet…:) I still seem to be here, even thought everybody knows I’m gone…