Yesterday, I made a little footnote asterisk. I do that because sometimes a word or sentence will make me want to lose track. Go off on a tangent. However, I failed to complete my little thought down below. I feel …. incomplete. So here, a day later, is the oh so important digression.
I can’t always remember when something happened, and I often look it up on my blog.*
*Without my blog, and chat transcripts, I would have been unable to answer a lot of the Sponsor Relationship Questionnaire for Immigration, in fact.
Well, that hardly seemed worth it a day later.
Man, all you guys are seriously trying to make me switch to WordPress, aren’t you? Maybe it’s time to test it out again. Maybe.
I was actually wondering about that asterisk. It was worth it.
I have no opinion on WordPress vs. Moveable Type. Or any blogging software. So, there’s that.
Blogs make a great record of personal history. So, entries may not be just current news for visitors, they may be part of written history of our time. I explored that in a couple of blog articles that begins here:
http://howesound.wordpress.com/1988/09/04/an-experiment-in-time-travel/
If you follow that URL, note the date of posting.
One article is about creating blog articles now, but posting them in the distant past (possible on WordPress.com), and the other speculates on how long this history will be available.
BTW, Google ranks new blog articles highly. I’ve observed that that ranking fades with time. It must be part of the algorithm. (BTW, I noticed your tweets).
Jodi, I didn’t say you *should* move to WordPress. But it’s kinda pretty 🙂
i do that too! meaning, i have to use my blog for a time reference.
i am not very good at remembering years or what happened when. i have to think in terms of big life events and when something happens in between those. very difficult and vague sometimes, hence the blog comes in might handy!