On blogging for historical purposes
May. 25th, 2010 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgI find my blog immensely useful for all sorts of reasons, but I've come to discover holes in the record that have caused me problems when doing research. The most common reasons I don't do a blog entry for the day are:
(1) I've had a staggeringly blank kind of depressed, fatigued, or pain-wracked day where nothing at all was achieved. I'm probably still my pajamas and haven't even checked the mail. Nothing to see, move along.
It's actually really useful for me to track those kind of days, because they're the ones I want to avoid in the future. Today being one of them.
(2) I've had a massively busy day where I have achieved much, seen people, done errands, and generally had a great old time. Too tired to blog. Too busy to blog. Strangely enough I have less regret about missing these good days, because I get to feel pleased that I've lived too much to blog about it.
(3) I've used Facebook to make mini blog posts, and since I'm not keen on repeating myself, the subject of those posts doesn't make it to lj. This is bad because I can't search my FB history.
I've developed an aversion to short lj blog posts, but I think I shall have to start putting things on lj that for a while have been lost to ennui and/or Facebook. Oh the excitement.
(1) I've had a staggeringly blank kind of depressed, fatigued, or pain-wracked day where nothing at all was achieved. I'm probably still my pajamas and haven't even checked the mail. Nothing to see, move along.
It's actually really useful for me to track those kind of days, because they're the ones I want to avoid in the future. Today being one of them.
(2) I've had a massively busy day where I have achieved much, seen people, done errands, and generally had a great old time. Too tired to blog. Too busy to blog. Strangely enough I have less regret about missing these good days, because I get to feel pleased that I've lived too much to blog about it.
(3) I've used Facebook to make mini blog posts, and since I'm not keen on repeating myself, the subject of those posts doesn't make it to lj. This is bad because I can't search my FB history.
I've developed an aversion to short lj blog posts, but I think I shall have to start putting things on lj that for a while have been lost to ennui and/or Facebook. Oh the excitement.
