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jazzfishNormally I stay away from these because they're just not that interesting to me, but this one's pretty good (and sufficiently meta to amuse me): Last Friday's Five.
1. Explain why you started to journal/blog.
Two separate questions there. My freshman year of high school, Mrs Barbara Nelson required her English students to keep a journal for class. She didn't read it (or at least claimed not to); she just wanted us to be writing something every day or so. It got me in the habit of writing, so starting that summer I kept a paper journal through the beginning of college. It sort of trailed off once I got to college, but so did a lot of things. In retrospect I'm glad I kept the journal (despite the physical pain at some of the stupid things I did in high school), and very upset that I don't have a record of 1997-2000.
As for blogging,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadowsong told me to get an[1] LJ account in September 2000, when she went off to Scotland and was keeping people updated that way. So I did. And after about three months it occurred to me that I could maybe use it myself. I didn't really start until I got the Exegetics job in the middle of January 2001, though; it was a sufficient life-change that I felt like it was worth writing about.
2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not?
Pretty much all my local friends do, and a decent number of the distant ones that I still keep in touch with. Jeff Firestone and Katie Wanschura (among my closest friends in high school) are the only ones I can think of offhand that don't. My family remains blissfully unaware of the existence of this blog, due in large part to my reluctance to let them in on anything in my personal life. (Scars from years ago that probably really should have healed over by now.)
3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog?
Not really. I try to split entries between what's happened in my life, my reactions to it (occasionally locked), and cool stuff I've found on the Web.
4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year?
More of the 'my reactions to stuff' part, since I consider that to be at least as important as the events reacted to and I tend to be slack about that.
5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs.
Apart from everyone on my friends list, there's:
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things (Cory Doctorow et al)
Nearly Empty Rooms (Gareth Hanrahan) (also, Gar's gaming blog)
Neil Gaiman
Games * Design * Art * Culture (Greg Costikyan)
Joel on Software (Joel Spolsky)
[1] Is it "a LJ" or "an LJ?"
1. Explain why you started to journal/blog.
Two separate questions there. My freshman year of high school, Mrs Barbara Nelson required her English students to keep a journal for class. She didn't read it (or at least claimed not to); she just wanted us to be writing something every day or so. It got me in the habit of writing, so starting that summer I kept a paper journal through the beginning of college. It sort of trailed off once I got to college, but so did a lot of things. In retrospect I'm glad I kept the journal (despite the physical pain at some of the stupid things I did in high school), and very upset that I don't have a record of 1997-2000.
As for blogging,
shadowsong told me to get an[1] LJ account in September 2000, when she went off to Scotland and was keeping people updated that way. So I did. And after about three months it occurred to me that I could maybe use it myself. I didn't really start until I got the Exegetics job in the middle of January 2001, though; it was a sufficient life-change that I felt like it was worth writing about.2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not?
Pretty much all my local friends do, and a decent number of the distant ones that I still keep in touch with. Jeff Firestone and Katie Wanschura (among my closest friends in high school) are the only ones I can think of offhand that don't. My family remains blissfully unaware of the existence of this blog, due in large part to my reluctance to let them in on anything in my personal life. (Scars from years ago that probably really should have healed over by now.)
3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog?
Not really. I try to split entries between what's happened in my life, my reactions to it (occasionally locked), and cool stuff I've found on the Web.
4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year?
More of the 'my reactions to stuff' part, since I consider that to be at least as important as the events reacted to and I tend to be slack about that.
5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs.
Apart from everyone on my friends list, there's:
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things (Cory Doctorow et al)
Nearly Empty Rooms (Gareth Hanrahan) (also, Gar's gaming blog)
Neil Gaiman
Games * Design * Art * Culture (Greg Costikyan)
Joel on Software (Joel Spolsky)
[1] Is it "a LJ" or "an LJ?"
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Date: 2003-02-17 11:03 am (UTC)