Choices

One of the fond memories from my working days.  On the way home

High gray again today, temps is a little low (46℉), barometer is the same (30.1 in/Hg) and it looks to be a bog-standard gray spring day.  Sigh.

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The current foofooraw concerning “artificial intelligence” has made me sit back and think about just what the fuck people are all het up about.

This in turn got me thinking about what and how I write here on the internet.  Then I got to thinking about what my expectations for this seemingly pointless activity are.  All of this made me question why I am so damn paranoid.

I consider what I write here to be more of a diary than anything.  I do expect that someone will drop by but I don’t presume to charge them for the effort.  I think that isn’t all that unusual, but there on the edges of my brain, I occasionally hear a quiet voice whisper to me “charge for it!”.

But somewhere in the mess of changing technologies and competing corporate skullduggery, I needlessly switch things up and every couple of years I go haring after a new platform that meets with my latest half-baked moral imperative.  

I have been pretty content with Dreamwidth as a service.  I have been “screeding” here for the past 7+ years and it suits the purpose just fine.  But I only moved here in a fit of pique concerning how Blogger changed things to make the process more idiot proof and I had to learn different ways to do the same thing.  That and I was (am?) a JMG fanboy and decided to be a copycat.

But the last couple of months have got me thinking about my motivations and my reasoning and mostly I am not impressed with the quality I see there.

The world has changed since 2005 when I started blogging.  Blogging has become sort of passé though it hangs on with a devoted fan base.  

I will be playing around with the publication medium on both Dreamwidth and Blogger.  I suppose that right now I am thinking that it might be easier to just publish on both.  Google isn’t going anywhere but is a problem in terms of its power.  Dreamwidth is free, but I went through a couple of small internet service providers a long ago and Dreamwidth is trying to maintain a niche business which is always dicey during bad times.