{"id":37739,"date":"2023-01-04T14:21:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T19:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=37739"},"modified":"2023-01-04T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T19:21:16","slug":"whither-blogging-and-personal-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=37739","title":{"rendered":"Whither Blogging and Personal Websites?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Abandoned-House.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-37738\" src=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Abandoned-House-300x274.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Abandoned-House-300x274.png 300w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Abandoned-House.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a>As our time and stamina have been consumed by attempts to survive the increasing instability in our world, social media have also shortened our attention span. Things change fast online, and it\u2019s possible that the constant rapid scrollings and headline browsings are making our behavior revert to gatherer-hunter fight-or-flight reflexes.<\/p>\n<p>With the advent of Tumblr and Medium, long entries on WordPress blogs were deemed pass\u00e9, TLDR. Many bloggers fell silent, went communal, or funneled their content into paywalled Patreons and Substacks. However, the recent implosion of Twitter has made longer writing come somewhat back into fashion &#8212; though &#8220;longer&#8221; usually means the 500 characters allowed on Mastodon, rather than essay-length musings.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, the avalanche of tasks in the last three years as well as an infrastructure-mandated overhaul of my entire website led to mostly silence on my blog in 2021 and 2022. My readers, understandably, wandered away. I also found myself wondering if I still have anything worthwhile to say: I started the blog in 2006, wrote slews of posts on the fleet of subjects that interest me, and I\u2019m now firmly in my third youth. It\u2019s harder to get excited (or annoyed) sufficiently to craft lengthy articles and find fitting accompanying images.<\/p>\n<p>But I missed writing on the blog sorely, just as I missed the small but wonderful community that had grown organically around it and around the constellations of subjects it explored. So I\u2019ve decided to see if we can once again gather around this hearth and share stories until the time comes for the long sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our time and stamina have been consumed by attempts to survive the increasing instability in our world, social media have also shortened our attention span. Things change fast online, and it\u2019s possible that the constant rapid scrollings and headline browsings are making our behavior revert to gatherer-hunter fight-or-flight reflexes. With the advent of Tumblr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,10,13,5,7],"tags":[283,285,284,79],"class_list":["post-37739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-biology-and-culture","category-science","category-science-fiction","category-space-exploration","category-writing-and-literature","tag-blog","tag-friends","tag-website","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}