how this blog came to be
I once hid my old post from February 2002, because it showed a side of myself I disliked. I've changed it back now. I hid my words using the comments tag, so you would have had to view page source. I intended this blog to simply be fiction, a venture into the recesses of my mind, drawing forth unsatisfied desires. I fancied myself making elaborate characters, each acting out a part of my personality.
That turned out to be more work than I had intelligence or stamina to do.
I created this blog because I read about them in the XY magazine that is now defunct. That article introduced me to Trabaca, Psionic.nu, Vivid Blurry (but under a different URL, which he abandoned because of vicious comments), and few other blogs that are now disappeared, presumably because the writers have found other life and have lost interests or time to continue to update.
In short order, the structure of the blogs meant that they interlinked, letting me stumble on 2XY Little. Yellow. Different. and Yeah, totally!, the writer I would unknowingly see again in Gamers Experimentations. You can read his archives.
Although I had a different purpose for creating "luminus dormiens", the original name, eventually, I started talking about politics, deafness, and the environment. Merely mentioning that I was deaf allowed Larry to find me on Google and add me to his long list of Deaf/HoH/Terp bloggers.
Some people said that it was their friends who got them into blogging. For me, it was a magazine. I read non-fictions more than fictions, magazines of current events or contemporary writings more than literature. It is easier for me to access the "now" than to analyze the "long ago" of dead white men, excepting Shakespeare, to whom I devoted an unusual amount of time "reading about" than reading his own works, since books "about Shakespeare" proved more illuminating about life, death, love, and society than the plays that he wrote, some of which I barely understand.
Another aspect changed me was meeting someone on FaceParty that I couldn't like, and yet he lusted after me. When he told me that he read everything I wrote, I felt supremely violated. That led me to try to turn some of myself off and focus only on blogging. After a while, I realized that I should be myself, regardless of the readers. So after a foray into complaining mainly about politics, I evolved into blogging a mash of self-analysis, other-sites linking, and current events commentary.
Unfortunately, Blogspot doesn't allow me to categorize each post I've made, so I can't organize the gamut-mess that is in my archives. LiveJournal has recently released a feature that allows me to tag posts with descriptive words, whether they be poetry, life, video games, etc. This would allow people to find other posts that covered the same subject. WordPress, which I'm trying out, allows me to put archives in pseudo-folders of categories that my posts fit into. I don't think Xanga or other free blogs host have this feature yet. I know Moveable Type, one of the familiar linchpins for bloggers that host their own sites and pay for their own domain names, allows categorization of posts. Daveynin was one of the first bloggers I saw using this feature for putting things into categories. I want that feature for Blogger. Blogger remains my preferred space mainly because I can customize the HTML template, which I can't do similarly in other free hosts.
The blogging phenomenon wonderfully provided me an idea that I shouldn't have to worry about HTML and making contents. I could simply write for myself what I'm interested in. So after discovering blogging, I abandoned Tripod, Geocities, and Angelfire for something self-maintaining or worry-free.
I can't stress how new it felt to me when I first typed in "http://www.blogger.com" and up pop a page with an orange B inviting me to sign up. How things have changed!
That turned out to be more work than I had intelligence or stamina to do.
I created this blog because I read about them in the XY magazine that is now defunct. That article introduced me to Trabaca, Psionic.nu, Vivid Blurry (but under a different URL, which he abandoned because of vicious comments), and few other blogs that are now disappeared, presumably because the writers have found other life and have lost interests or time to continue to update.
In short order, the structure of the blogs meant that they interlinked, letting me stumble on 2XY Little. Yellow. Different. and Yeah, totally!, the writer I would unknowingly see again in Gamers Experimentations. You can read his archives.
Although I had a different purpose for creating "luminus dormiens", the original name, eventually, I started talking about politics, deafness, and the environment. Merely mentioning that I was deaf allowed Larry to find me on Google and add me to his long list of Deaf/HoH/Terp bloggers.
Some people said that it was their friends who got them into blogging. For me, it was a magazine. I read non-fictions more than fictions, magazines of current events or contemporary writings more than literature. It is easier for me to access the "now" than to analyze the "long ago" of dead white men, excepting Shakespeare, to whom I devoted an unusual amount of time "reading about" than reading his own works, since books "about Shakespeare" proved more illuminating about life, death, love, and society than the plays that he wrote, some of which I barely understand.
Another aspect changed me was meeting someone on FaceParty that I couldn't like, and yet he lusted after me. When he told me that he read everything I wrote, I felt supremely violated. That led me to try to turn some of myself off and focus only on blogging. After a while, I realized that I should be myself, regardless of the readers. So after a foray into complaining mainly about politics, I evolved into blogging a mash of self-analysis, other-sites linking, and current events commentary.
Unfortunately, Blogspot doesn't allow me to categorize each post I've made, so I can't organize the gamut-mess that is in my archives. LiveJournal has recently released a feature that allows me to tag posts with descriptive words, whether they be poetry, life, video games, etc. This would allow people to find other posts that covered the same subject. WordPress, which I'm trying out, allows me to put archives in pseudo-folders of categories that my posts fit into. I don't think Xanga or other free blogs host have this feature yet. I know Moveable Type, one of the familiar linchpins for bloggers that host their own sites and pay for their own domain names, allows categorization of posts. Daveynin was one of the first bloggers I saw using this feature for putting things into categories. I want that feature for Blogger. Blogger remains my preferred space mainly because I can customize the HTML template, which I can't do similarly in other free hosts.
The blogging phenomenon wonderfully provided me an idea that I shouldn't have to worry about HTML and making contents. I could simply write for myself what I'm interested in. So after discovering blogging, I abandoned Tripod, Geocities, and Angelfire for something self-maintaining or worry-free.
I can't stress how new it felt to me when I first typed in "http://www.blogger.com" and up pop a page with an orange B inviting me to sign up. How things have changed!
posted by Alan at December 11, 2005
1 Comments:
Actually I once destroyed a whole blog early on because it had become too personal and revealed more than I wanted others to know. It didn't have many posts though but I at least backed it up for myself.
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