| My own blogging has served, variously: - As a public record of the evolution of my ideas and thinking. (Often embarassing.) - As a reference for things I've found useful, and contextualised. - A place I can post my highly original thoughts ... to be told "oh, X came up with that years / decades / centuries / millennia ago." Happens far more often than I'd have ever dreamed. - As a place I can refer to / link to my own best efforts at explaining some idea or principle. Rewriting from scratch continuously is tedious. - Rarely, for discussion. - As a very loose bookmarking service. (Only a small fraction of references end up there, but the ones which do tend to be significant.) - Something of a shingle, though I've not leveraged that as yet. Every so often a particular post will take off, and it's generally exciting when it does. Rarely the pieces I pour my sweat and tears into, though that happens occasionally. What the World decides to Take an Interest in is a wonderously fickle phenomenon. There's also the tinkering on the blog itself as a technical means of presenting, distributing, and organising information, which I find interesting. |