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Picking this blog habit up again
Tuesday, 16 January 2024 01:39Hello! I’m here whether anyone follows me or not because I love long form blog writing. I miss having an Internet forum to dialogue about popular culture with people. Blogging helps me identify my feelings and choose my reactions in a way that social media doesn’t. Today I was looking at a friend’s Facebook page and her bio had just a quote that was something like,
The best minds talk about ideas, the average ones talk about events, and the below average ones talk about people.
And that reminded me how much I miss blogging. There aren’t enough ideas on Facebook and there’s way too much gossip about people. If we’re going to be against cancel culture we really need to journal our feelings and be more selective where we publish them.
I also came back because Dreamwidth solves my problem of wanting to keep track of people’s Substack newsletters in a feed. I’m missing emails amongst the spam. I can log in to Substack but their interface confuses me and it’s too intimidating to write my own newsletter. I signed up for a Medium blog a few times but can’t commit to it. Dreamwidth, on the other hand, feels like LiveJournal. It reminds me of my college days when I didn’t care if people read my writing, so I would mostly take surveys… and then people actually read my writing! Even if it was just to learn how much like Norman Bates I might be, or that my mind is 50-50 female-male.
You can do almost anything here format-wise. Pinned posts are called stickies and free accounts can have only two of them. Feeds appear in your reading page which is the friend feed of journals. You go to Help and type Feed in the topic box to learn how to add feeds, then paste in the feed url to add it. Substack feeds are title.substack.com/feed. For example, http://weekendwater.substack.com/feed for Weekend Water by Paul F. Tompkins and Janie Haddad Tompkins.
Images have to be hosted on another site like in the LiveJournal days. Maybe I’ll add one here later when I’m not tired.
I’m also euphoriafish on Threads and Instagram. I hope you’ll say hello!
Some topics that always come up for me:
I think I will make this post sticky. If you comment and tell me what your journal is about, I might follow back.
Salutations!
The best minds talk about ideas, the average ones talk about events, and the below average ones talk about people.
And that reminded me how much I miss blogging. There aren’t enough ideas on Facebook and there’s way too much gossip about people. If we’re going to be against cancel culture we really need to journal our feelings and be more selective where we publish them.
I also came back because Dreamwidth solves my problem of wanting to keep track of people’s Substack newsletters in a feed. I’m missing emails amongst the spam. I can log in to Substack but their interface confuses me and it’s too intimidating to write my own newsletter. I signed up for a Medium blog a few times but can’t commit to it. Dreamwidth, on the other hand, feels like LiveJournal. It reminds me of my college days when I didn’t care if people read my writing, so I would mostly take surveys… and then people actually read my writing! Even if it was just to learn how much like Norman Bates I might be, or that my mind is 50-50 female-male.
You can do almost anything here format-wise. Pinned posts are called stickies and free accounts can have only two of them. Feeds appear in your reading page which is the friend feed of journals. You go to Help and type Feed in the topic box to learn how to add feeds, then paste in the feed url to add it. Substack feeds are title.substack.com/feed. For example, http://weekendwater.substack.com/feed for Weekend Water by Paul F. Tompkins and Janie Haddad Tompkins.
Images have to be hosted on another site like in the LiveJournal days. Maybe I’ll add one here later when I’m not tired.
I’m also euphoriafish on Threads and Instagram. I hope you’ll say hello!
Some topics that always come up for me:
- Comedy fandom
- Japanese language and culture
- Film and tv
- Punk, post punk, or prog rock
- cats
I think I will make this post sticky. If you comment and tell me what your journal is about, I might follow back.
Salutations!
