Back to Blogging
I’ve decided that it’s about time that I revisit blogging.
I’ve maintained a web presence consistently since April 1998. First it was a static webpage (followed by a website) on AOL which documented my biography up to that point as well as concerts that I had attended. The site was called “glossophobia”, which means fear of public speaking. At the time that was the closest thing I could come up with that meant “shy”. I included links to the site in every concert review I wrote, every chain letter I forwarded (remember, it was the late 90s), and every guestbook I signed. It was a successful site.
After securing employment as a full-time webmaster in 2001, I used a college-owned server to continue my site and later transitioned into blogging with livejournal. Updates came less frequently. It seemed that after web developing for 40 hours a week, there just wasn’t much interest in doing it as a hobby anymore. After getting married and having my first child, I found that the majority of my contributions to the internet consisted of photos and my photography passion was ignited. My photo gallery website – www.bistan.net – popped up in 2004.
I read blogs daily on all sorts of topics: fitness, photography, finance, productivity and everything in between. I envy some of the authors. I’ve tried multiple times to create a blog focusing on just one topic, but I always fail. I just have too many interests to narrowly focus that much attention on just one of them.
So here we are. I’m working towards a blog which has as many interests as the author. Will it be as successful as others? Maybe not. But I will have fun along the way.
