Websites and blogs: fewer blogs, more readers, more activity

The chaos of multiple blogs slobg gobls blogs 

Time was when every new online initiative, whether personal or professional, required its own domain name and its own website or at least blog. I think I got my first website, writing.co.nz, around 1997.

Each new website, and later blog, was to be the topical blog, the dominant blog, the best blog, the top blog. I made business blogs and plain language blogs and poetry blogs, blogs on LinkedIn, Blogger, WordPress, SquareSpace, not to mention home made blogs, and then there was Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and — you get the picture.

Old Lady Laughing turned out to be a precursor of Boot Camp for the Bonus Years which has recently slithered across into Write Into Life, a Wordpress site.

I'm 77 now, still fascinated by happiness, ageism, writing and blogging, but regretting my proliferation into multiple locations. Enough splittiness. Enough muttering into a lonely silence. Come and meet many friendly readers at my new addresses (one is never enough):
Write Into Life — How to stay alive until you die. Writing helps
Poems in the Wild—See the digital poem in its natural habitat

Websites and blogs: more online activity, fewer blogs

The chaos of multiple blogs slobg gobls blogs 

Time was when every new online initiative, whether personal or professional, required its own domain name and its own website or at least blog. I think I created my first website, writing.co.nz, around 1997.

Each new website, and later blog, was to be the topical blog, the dominant blog, the best blog, the top blog. I made business blogs and plain language blogs and poetry blogs, blogs on LinkedIn, Blogger, WordPress, SquareSpace, not to mention home made blogs, and then there was Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and — you get the picture.

Old Lady Laughing turned out to be a precursor of Boot Camp for the Bonus Years which has recently slithered across into Write Into Life, a Wordpress site.

I'm 77 now, still fascinated by happiness, ageism, writing and blogging, but regretting my proliferation into multiple locations. Enough splittiness. Enough muttering into a lonely silence. Come and meet many friendly readers at my new addresses (one is never enough):
Write Into Life — How to stay alive until you die. Writing helps
Poems in the Wild—See the digital poem in its natural habitat

Blogging is good for the health (I think)

Yet another convert! My friend Anon is going into hospital for an operation, and will be out of action for quite some time. This was a shock cancer diagnosis, though her prospects are excellent.

Already changes are rippling through her psyche, and (being a writer) she wants to document events over the next year.

She's never had a blog, despite being a 50-year-old writer.

Anon wanted to know, what's different about a blog? Why not just write on the computer?

So I demonstrated with this entry just how simple and smooth a blogspot is.

And how secure: it can be private.

How searchable, if she adds labels.

How aesthetically pleasing the process is as well as the product.

How editable.

How safe, preserved by Google.

Seeing is believing. I don't have a mission here, I just thought it might help her.

And sure enough, she's started one. Right now it'll be the last thing on her mind, as she's all bandaged up and groggy in a neat white hospital bed. But next week, she'll get to love her blog, I'm sure.

Photo by Labnol.