What prompted me to start? I suppose the amount of unexpressed dissatisfaction in my head reached critical mass when reading New Scientist for 26 July 2008, which has a collection of opinion pieces on Reason that go over some of the ground that never seems to be gone over without stumbling.
Did that convince me that a blog fits what I want to do? No. A blog still seems like a half-arsed way of connecting articles and comments upon them. I reckon that there’s something not-quite-right about getting someone else to host my posts (I have webspace elsewhere that’s more nearly under my control), but I don’t want to host other peoples comments. I had a plan to design something that hosted posts on my server and allowed people to post comments that they hosted on their own server. Too much work.
Did it convince me that I have something interesting to say? No. It just convinced me that highly respected people often say things that are only about as interesting as what I have to say.
Did it convince me that anyone would take any notice of what I have to say? No, but it did suggest to me that saying it somewhere would probably be good for my stress levels, whether or not anyone took any notice. So at present I have no plan to tell anyone about this blog, but if people stumble upon it, that’s their lookout.
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That first post triggered blogger.com’s robot to ask me to request that it be checked (by a human reader, presumably). I wonder what it is about it that makes it look like a spam blog?
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