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James 5 January 2010 featured 3 Comments

Welcome to 2010 and as I promised a blog post.  A few months ago I began to realize that I am not a blogger, although I still have a few who faithfully check to see if I post I will no longer promise to blog often.  I am not getting rid of my unlinked media site but I will in no way try to keep it up to date with content.  I will share most of the reasoning behind it and leave it at that.

1. I feel I am too concise.  I have never been a wordy writer.  If I can explain something in a sentence I’ll do it in a sentence.  I don’t like long explanations.
2. To me blogging was a fad.  A friend of mine started a blog about the same time that I did, and for a while we were the only two people I knew who had them  it made checking other peoples post really easy.  Since then at least a dozen or two people that I know have set up blogs, some post daily, while others only once.  For a while it felt cool being a trend-setter, but it didn’t make me want to blog more often, in fact it became a hassle to read everyone else’s blogs and then comment on them, and the more I stopped reading them the less I posted.
3. Web Designer.  Part of what interested me in blogging was the hacking of the themes and the personalization that I was able to get out of it.  And then helping others do the same thing.  My wife, brother, Tim.  I began to focus more on the themes and less on the content.  In the past 3 months I have undertaken a new project of building a website from scratch for Bethel.  I spend a lot of my free time working on that, (in fact if I wasn’t blogging right now I’d be working on it.  I wish I could send you all the link to give you the sneak peek but it’s far from done and I can’t show it off to the masses quite yet.  I foresee that project taking another 3 or 4 months depending on how much free time I have to work on it, but when it is done I’ll send word and the link.  On a side note if you are someone I know personally and are wanting more control over you blog and less restrictions let me know and I discuss options that I can offer you.
4. My Life is not an Open Book.  Some blogger share way too much information in their blog posts.  I am not a person who feels it is necessary to do that.  I could fill my blog with funny stories that might happen throughout my day but those stories would generally be of students from my class.  And with as plugged in as my students are to the internet it could be pretty easy for one of them to find out that I was talking about one of them, which is something that I feel would not be beneficial.  So I don’t publish stories of my students.
5. Because.

The list is not extensive, but those are my reasons.  I hope I don’t crush the feelings of the faithful unlinkedmedians.  I hope you have a Happy New Year.

- hold nothing back

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