hardly anyone posts to their blog anymore, but does anyone read blogs anymore?

and by that i mean: do you read a blog like this one? written by a non-company, non-celebrity, non-news aggregator?

serious question.

holler back.

so, the Library of Congress has archived every tweet ever twittered.
(commence twitter verb-vernacular debates)

Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service?  Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress.

That’s right.  Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions.

the rate at which knowledge/technology is increasing is amazing. topped only by the rate at which our world is shrinking.

but here’s the question…

not that you know your e-statements are being archived somewhere like the Library of Congress, does that make you think more about what you’ll be broadcasting?

i suppose the greater issue is this: does what we say online matter in light of the fact that anyone & everyone can read what we produce, and, in many cases, it is saved forever on the wide, wide world of web?

i want to know what you think.

it’s time to enter a new phase of web/blog/twitter presence.

it will center around genepensiero.com, where you’ll funnel to the various places that you want to go.

come on by and see the changes.

genepensiero.com

the year is coming to an end.

the last quarter of 2009 has proven to be the least-blogged period in recent history.

seriously…people aren’t posting anymore, including me.

i very much want that to change.

so let me ask you this:

why do YOU think people are blogging less?

too busy?

too distracted by microblogging?

or do you think the trend is coming to an end?

lay it on me.

i like blogging.

strike that. i love blogging.

however, as you may have noticed, i have squarely slipped into a pattern of non-daily posting. at this point, i think i’m at 2 or 3 a week.

google reader shows me publishing @ a rate of 0.5 posts-per-day, but that really doesn’t seem all too accurate, if we’re being honest.

why would a computer misrepresent blogging-trend data? well…that i can’t figure out…but i’m sure the lonely servers in mountain view have their reasons.

anyway…

for a long time i did try to post every day (other than weekends), but for some reason that habit has been broken…and recently i’ve been wondering why.

when i thought about it, i started to realize that everyone is posting less…even people who also used to try to post each day.

in fact, other than the tech/design/company blogs that i read, no one is posting once a day.

it’s not a slam, just an observation. one that includes myself…and i don’t know why.

i look at my google reader trends and i see this:

our blurry friends there are the non-commercial blogs of friends
and other folks that i find interesting

i think this illustrates the fact that people are posting less. lots less.

this time last year those numbers under DVICE, The Apple Blog and Font Squirrel were 2.2, 2.0, 1.8, 1.5 and 1.0 (give or take).

publishing is way down.

however, i don’t see people abandoning their blogs…conversely, i see more people starting blogs.

so the question is, where are all our posts?

perhaps we have all embraced the micro-blogging phenomenon, which sucks up all our posting time in 140 characters or less.

or perhaps we have all together become more busy with other things in our lives. seems very possible, but unlikely that all of us would have experienced the same change at the same time.

or perhaps still, it is possible, i suppose, that we’re just all out of things to say.

what about you? have you noticed a drop-off in posting?

what do you think is the reason?

inquiring minds want to know!

VBS
+
Regular Church Services
+
A Trip To Templeton
+
A Trip To Thousand Oaks
+
Evening Worship Practice
=
a very small amount of substantive blogging this week. sorry.

but, without fail, i will provide yet another inane, nonsensical youtube video.

what’s worse: the rejection or the book ad at the end???

enjoy.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leYG6IAznvk&feature=related[/youtube]

it’s going to be a very busy week.

i’ve got some cool things i’d like to do on the ‘ole blog, but i just don’t have the time to get them done.

sorry about that.

in the mean time, here’s a picture of a light bulb:

i have a compulsion to take pictures of light bulbs.

light bulbs and signs.

i want to photograph them all.

do you have something that you constantly find yourself snapshotting?

blessings.

remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books? the ones where every few pages you’d get to a choice to either go with the smugglers or to open the package you found beneath the park bench?

despite the fact that i always, and i mean always ended up dead/kidnapped/lost at sea, i really enjoyed those.

this week, i dare you to do something. and, like any good CYOA book, i’m giving you 2 options.

here’s your choice:

Turn Off Your Blog Stats for 1 week.

or,

Go On A News Fast for 1 week.

no stats. no news. pick one and see what happens.

human beings can live without stats for 1 week.

we can even live without news for 1 week.

i’m guess that if you do it, some interesting things will happen.

would love to hear if any of you actually decide to do this, or if you ever have.

maranatha

*photo by Kyle Slattery

welcome to the internet.

like most people, you’ve been connected for some time. and in that time you have, no doubt, discovered that the wide, wide world of web can be an angry, cynical, unfair, finger-pointing place…even among Christian sites.

some people would like that to change.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
{ Matthew 5.16 }

“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
{ John 15.11 }

as God’s people, we are to demonstrate love, not hate. we are to be full of compassion and mercy and forgiveness and joy everywhere we go and in all that we do.

online it’s easy to become someone else. it’s easy to be someone angry, someone spiteful, someone who doesn’t care about the effect of their words or attitudes. someone who is brazenly negative.

it’s time to be positive.

here’s the idea (it’s not mine, it’s this guy’s): on your blog, on your facebook, on your twitter, on your myspace, on your web space, when you add something new, designate it with either a + or a – .

it’s a pretty simple equation.

+ = something positive

- = something negative

say what you want.

post what you want.

act how you want.

but be honest about what it is that you are broadcasting.

+ or -

for me, it’s a good reminder that i am out here representing Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world. i’m representing the One who left heaven that He might put on flesh forever and serve the very people that rejected Him.

He chose to love unconditionally.

He loved us while we loved Him not.

and now i am His representative to the whole world.

the least i can do is think about the words i’m typing for that world to see.

be like Christ.

blessings.

+

wednesday is often known for feelings of weariness and doldrums.

bloll rhymes with dull (…kind of).

your wednesday bloll: what is your favorite brand of bottled water?

mine is pictured above.

i’m drinking one right now.

your turn.