10.03.08

Return of RachelPopkin.com

Posted in administrivia at 4:07 pm by rachel

Every time i think of this blog, I feel a little guilty. I had such big plans for it - it was not going to be my first blog, not by a long shot, but it was going to be the first time that I was really publishing content under my own name. I was going to get my ideas out there into the void. I was going to “join the conversation” as myself. I was going to push those more unfortunate google results for my name down to the second page.

So I registered this domain, threw some Wordpress on it, did some posting… and then stopped.

The thing is, I didn’t stop because I ran out of things to write about. Quite the opposite - since I created this venue for myself, I’ve had so many ideas about posts to write and discussions to start that I’ve gotten overwhelmed. I maintain a text file with one-line summaries of posts I mean to write “when I have more time”, and it’s impossibly long. Ironically, I think I stiffled myself with my own idea-capture system. I wonder how many others have fallen into this trap?

So I’m starting over - no more text file. Furthermore, I am publically commiting to post at least one entry per day for the rest of 2008. A big goal, but nothing unachievable. Not all the posts will be treatises on internet social power, nerd emotional communication protocols, or the like - though I do hope to cover these topics in some depth and get discussion going. There will probably be some link-blogging and cause-promoting. But I’m going to get my momentum going again.

Watch this space.

This post is brought to you in part by Elisa Camahort Page of BlogHer, whose talk at GHC08 lit a fire under my ass to get back to blogging.

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