blogging

On Being Organised /  by Geoff Kim

The thing about (regular) blogging is that it must be part of the ritual. It must be an extension to what is going on in your head at any given moment. They say that in the internet age, for the first time in human history, we are building shrines for ourselves - digital pyramids if you will - to leave indelible footprints of our lives, our loves and a penchant for cat videos. 

Whether it was a blog post on the hot new band I had just seen or a re-post of cool architecture on tumblr, I used to thrive on the fact that perhaps a future archivist could go through all of my musings and be able to construct an idea of who I was and what made me tick. 

Somewhere along the way, however, the pyramid I was building for myself no longer needed the blog form. It evolved into packets of nonsensical and totally unconnected tweets. Then came instant messaging services (e.g. Whatsapp, Kakao) or Pocket clippings. Now, say that archivist is a version of me 4-5 years down the line, he would have no idea what I had meant when I said:

What I'm coming to realise is that blogging gives context, or better still, a narrative. I first started this blog post thinking that it would be about a Tumblr I had just discovered called - Things Organized Neatly (as this post title may suggest). You may have heard of it. Apparently it won a Webby and it even became a top-selling book. As I started thinking about how dis-organised my digital life had been the last few years, it bore down to the fact that I had not been blogging - by which I mean 'writing'.

So here's to being more organised, neatly even, in 2017. I'm hoping the 2021 version of me is reading this as he rides around in his personal, self-driving uber machine-copter thing and thinks well of the current version of me.

#b03: March Madness /  by Geoff Kim

​So I've been challenged to write a blog post every day, once a day, for the month of March.

In a previous life this would not have meant anything special, but folks - we are in 2012 and quite frankly, the idea of "blogging", seems kinda quaint.

Fairly certain I'll be regretting this come day 4 or 5 but am going to give it a hot go and see where it takes me. Some of you would know that I'm off to Austin TX again, for that annual mind-frak otherwise known as 'South by South West' - and in theory, sounds like the perfect time to start blogging again, no?

Contrary to popular belief, I have in fact been blogging all this time - just on a platform that is not very well known as a blogging platform - yep, you guessed it: Google+.

Exhibits A / B / C / D / E / F

For a time this afternoon, I considered asking Steve whether doing #b03 on G+ would be allowed but decided on this semi-dormant Blogger platform. (I later discovered that there is loose G+ integration now, which probably means they will eventually fully merge to become one thing.)

So what will I write about?

Remains to be seen of course, but for those following at home, I will most likely sound just as schizophrenic as I do on twitter or tumblr or pinterest or wherever it is I try to make a dent on the interwebs.

Ok. Let's get blogging.