{"id":4139,"date":"2014-07-26T02:14:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T02:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2014-07-23T02:33:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T02:33:13","slug":"linked-r-i-p-the-blog-1997-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/07\/26\/linked-r-i-p-the-blog-1997-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: R.I.P. The Blog, 1997-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/13\/12\/rip-the-blog-1997-2013\">via Kotke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I&#8217;ll be here, blogging away until 2073. I figure 100 is a good age at which to retire. If I have a point to make, I&#8217;ll have made it by then. Man, I wonder what crazy YouTube videos there will be to post in 30 years? Probably Wes Anderson filming trials riding in a wingsuit on Mars or something. I can&#8217;t wait.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel the same way. I\u2019ve had this blog since 2009 and the beer blog since 2012. My first blog launched in 1999 is long gone (saved on my RAID Array in HTML format) and my 2nd and 3rd blogs,also archived as XML \/ WordPress backups, I\u2019ve been blogging for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>This blog only gets 7,000 visitors a month with around 25,000 page views. My beer blog gets a little more than that but not a huge number, nothing wort monetizing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019ve stopped using social media. I participate in two online forums and still upload photos to Flickr but that\u2019s it. The social network shuffle happens so often now, it\u2019s been great to go back to basics which is to sit here and author a blog. I\u2019m not a great writer, my life isn\u2019t interesting but the ability to share here is a valuable thing to me. Most importantly, I own the server, the blog CMS, analytics software and the entire experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, I received an email from someone I\u2019ve known since 2003. We met a few times, she enjoyed my thoughts on the value of college and it was moving enough for her to write a letter. That\u2019s a big deal to me. My long-form high school education writing has a small group of readers who check in every few weeks to see what\u2019s new and this person has read my blog since the very beginning. That is huge to me.<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s Facebook, Twitter &amp; Orkut come and go but blogging is for life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Kotke: I&#8217;ll be here, blogging away until 2073. 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