I went back to your "About" page and the first line struck me
"I write daily about urbanism, land use, suburbs, small towns, and the built environment in general."
I write about Life / Food + Music + Art + Craft + History = Culture (L/5e=C) and it is a formula. But the beauty of formula is process. I celebrated my first year in December, and have posted every Friday.
What we share is a concentration on things/places/experiences to put us in touch with our culture. And it's really a culture that we all share.
Your post on spatula's got to me bc weirdly enough, I collect spatulas!
About seeing where your writing goes in another year, my latest project is to create a podcast of each prior post and curate that into a collection for my reader/listeners.
Your photos are an important part of your posts. Keep going!
As for your question, I think I've come to associate your blog most with two things; fascinating looks at how the past is influencing the present (ghost structures, repurposed structures, etc), and an welcome right-of-center perspective on urbanization/urban planning issues. The posts on those topics are the ones that I find most interesting.
Now, on the point of "content creation" (I'm not a huge fan of the phrase either) in general, and abandoned blogs specifically; I've dabled in this a bit myself over the last 20 years. Back in 2003, I started a hobby blog where I did things like video game and anime reviews, model building reports, etc. However, at the present time I'm only updating it about every year or so. Why? part of it is that most of what I used to post there I now put up on Facebook or other channels. The other part is that time is always at a premium, and between my Navy career and kids I don't have as much spare time as I used to! The other issue is that I'm also spending a good chunk of that spare time on my other internet project, a website that is focused on naval gaming. Tied in with that is a couple of YouTube channels that I run, as well as a podcast. If I manage to come up with a bit of time to spend on putting something together to post, it will tend to get spent on those projects instead.
All that's to say, I feel your pain when it comes to the time and effort it takes to put together a quality post, and I'm impressed you've managed to do so for the last year. Keep up the good work!
I've been enjoying the "content" almost from the very start, and I think you've done a nice job of not backing yourself into too specific a niche. Nice going and congrats on one year!
I went back to your "About" page and the first line struck me
"I write daily about urbanism, land use, suburbs, small towns, and the built environment in general."
I write about Life / Food + Music + Art + Craft + History = Culture (L/5e=C) and it is a formula. But the beauty of formula is process. I celebrated my first year in December, and have posted every Friday.
What we share is a concentration on things/places/experiences to put us in touch with our culture. And it's really a culture that we all share.
Your post on spatula's got to me bc weirdly enough, I collect spatulas!
About seeing where your writing goes in another year, my latest project is to create a podcast of each prior post and curate that into a collection for my reader/listeners.
Your photos are an important part of your posts. Keep going!
I went back to your "About" page and the first line struck me
"I write daily about urbanism, land use, suburbs, small towns, and the built environment in general."
I write about Life / Food + Music + Art + Craft + History = Culture (L/5e=C) and it is a formula. But the beauty of formula is process. I celebrated my first year in December, and have posted every Friday.
What we share is a concentration on things/places/experiences to put us in touch with our culture. And it's really a culture that we all share.
Your post on spatula's got to me bc weirdly enough, I collect spatulas!
About seeing where your writing goes in another year, my latest project is to create a podcast of each prior post and curate that into a collection for my reader/listeners.
Your photos are an important part of your posts. Keep going!
Ric
Interesting post, as usual.
As for your question, I think I've come to associate your blog most with two things; fascinating looks at how the past is influencing the present (ghost structures, repurposed structures, etc), and an welcome right-of-center perspective on urbanization/urban planning issues. The posts on those topics are the ones that I find most interesting.
Now, on the point of "content creation" (I'm not a huge fan of the phrase either) in general, and abandoned blogs specifically; I've dabled in this a bit myself over the last 20 years. Back in 2003, I started a hobby blog where I did things like video game and anime reviews, model building reports, etc. However, at the present time I'm only updating it about every year or so. Why? part of it is that most of what I used to post there I now put up on Facebook or other channels. The other part is that time is always at a premium, and between my Navy career and kids I don't have as much spare time as I used to! The other issue is that I'm also spending a good chunk of that spare time on my other internet project, a website that is focused on naval gaming. Tied in with that is a couple of YouTube channels that I run, as well as a podcast. If I manage to come up with a bit of time to spend on putting something together to post, it will tend to get spent on those projects instead.
All that's to say, I feel your pain when it comes to the time and effort it takes to put together a quality post, and I'm impressed you've managed to do so for the last year. Keep up the good work!
I've been enjoying the "content" almost from the very start, and I think you've done a nice job of not backing yourself into too specific a niche. Nice going and congrats on one year!
I went back to your "About" page and the first line struck me
"I write daily about urbanism, land use, suburbs, small towns, and the built environment in general."
I write about Life / Food + Music + Art + Craft + History = Culture (L/5e=C) and it is a formula. But the beauty of formula is process. I celebrated my first year in December, and have posted every Friday.
What we share is a concentration on things/places/experiences to put us in touch with our culture. And it's really a culture that we all share.
Your post on spatula's got to me bc weirdly enough, I collect spatulas!
About seeing where your writing goes in another year, my latest project is to create a podcast of each prior post and curate that into a collection for my reader/listeners.
Your photos are an important part of your posts. Keep going!
Ric