Welcome to my internet.
Hi everyone! My dad and I are departing this Friday for Antarctica, and I’m commandeering this dusty old blog to post updates and pictures of our adventures. Watch this space for more stuff soon!
Hey guys,
One blog post a day until the end of 2008 was too ambitious given my other obligations (ie, the xbox I bought recently. Hey, just being honest). I’m scaling back a bit, but the blog will stay active. Seriously, I mean it this time.
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.
Hello, World.
First, I’d like to thank Rachel for inviting me here – I did not expect such a warm welcome when I asked if I could use her blog to get a press pass for the 2008 NYC Finovate. Rachel and I have a shared passion in money-grubbing, and I suppose I’m here to manifest that side of her so she doesn’t have to.
I am a big fan of personal finance blogs (a typical example) and Web 2.0 finance applications (my favorite). I’m not sure what “other interests” I have, but I guess we’ll find out, won’t we? Still, I promise to try not to pull the focus of this blog too far from what we all know and love.
On that note, here is something awesome. I’ve had this song on repeat for the past 6 hours.
insert comment here about necessity of fair use, creative commons, etc. in artistic production, blah blah.
Hello loyal readers!
Starting Very Soon Now, my distinguished colleague Alex Wong will be guest blogging on rachelpopkin.com.
Q: But Rachel, isn’t it a little weird for you to be appointing guest bloggers on your personal blog?
A: Ok, yes, a little. However:
So give him a warm welcome (read: please comment on his posts when he starts posting).
kthx,
Rachel Popkin, for rachelpopkin.com
My posting has fallen off, mostly because of coursework. Senior spring is far less relaxing than I’d hoped.
However.
I’ve started kind-of-maintaining a tumbler “tumblog” or whatever we’re supposed to call them. There’s not much original content, but I do post interesting stuff when I see it.
Check it out: arrkay.tumblr.com
Asking out of curiousity, do you purposely not capitalize “Internet”?
Yeah, that’s by design.
In my academic writing about the Internet, I did capitalize it, because that’s the “correct” thing to do. (Aside: as a psych major, I did some stuff on social development of introverts on the Internet. PDF, 1.9mb, my stuff starts on page 28.)
But I think it looks dumb for a blog. To me, it has a connotation of out-of-touch-ness, as if the Internet is a strange land we must refer to formally, instead of our native environment.
This is what I think of:
Uppercase Internet: “The Internet is a series of tubes.” Or maybe Fox 11′s news report on Anonymous.
Lowercase internet: “What part of the internet are you from?”
Am I wrong? Tell me about it in the comments.
email me: rachel at this domain.
