I just noticed that this year is milestone for me… I’ve been
blogging here for 10 years. Technically
I started penning my thoughts in a blog format in 2001 when my youngest daughter
was born and I decided to move my “mommy journaling” to the internet. In fact, I was such an early adopter and
user of Blogger that my url prefix was only three letters. My “mommy blog” is no longer accessible, but
I have still have all the entries (over 700 in 7 years) printed out in book
format. Yup, for prosperity purposes, print still
prevails! (say that fast three times)
Anyway, I merely
highlight this milestone because it’s been amazing to me how much blogs have
changed and morphed over the last decade.
“Blogging” (ie the sharing and posting on one’s thoughts on the
internet) is still an active practice, we just no longer really call it
blogging anymore. For the most part,
blogs are now just called websites and the social behaviors associated with sharing
one’s thoughts openly on the web has moved onto other platforms like Instagram,
Pinterest and Medium. Here’s a borrowed
image from Gigaom that does a nice job
in demonstrating this. And that’s all for this post… here’s to the
next ten years. :)
Image: Gigaom
PS: A few other pieces
on the changes in blogging that I found interesting:
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