#longform blogging

[her-bosom-buddy]

Save me, 2005—2015 blogging era... 2005—2015 blogging era, save me...

[frostickle]

Things I want to blog about

I’d like to blog more, because I believe that blogging is good for you:

Blogging forces you to put your random thoughts down into words, and you have to polish your thoughts into something coherent.

You can come back later and see your old ideas, keep track of your growth and all the things you’ve done.

I often find myself re-telling the same information to a different people. It’s good to have a blog post to just link people to.

It’s good to have old blog posts that explain ideas or concepts or even just instructions for doing things so you can just throw a link into an old post instead of spending a paragraph explaining something in a new blog post!

Things I’ve been meaning to blog about:

Hackathons - I just went to #GGJ16 this weekend and it was fantastic! I’m also planning to help to organise Govhack and Health Hack this year, and I help run the Hackathons Australia Facebook group.

Volunteer Organisations - I’d like to blog about volunteer organisations in general. I’ve done quite a lot of volunteering, including: First aid officer for St John’s, Youth Ambassador for the Red Cross, Secretary of my local Leo’s Club... ok this list is going to get very long so I’ll save that for the blog post! But I’d like to talk about the good and bad of volunteering, and spending time on unpaid projects.

Travel - I feel like I’m a much better traveller now than I was a few years ago and I’d like to document what lessons I’ve learnt. In 2015 I traveled to the USA (twice!), Canada and Indonesia.

Moving - I just moved to a new city! Making new friends! House hunting!

Photography - More tutorials! I hoping to be doing a few more workshops at a bunch of universities this year :)

2015 Recap & New Year Resolutions - It’s February and I haven’t written this post yet >_< Resolutions:

I’ll blog every week (easily achievable if I rotate between “serious blog posts” and “food blog posts”)

I’ll do a data visualisation every month

I’ll take on less projects!

I’ll finish projects that I’ve started.

I’ll delegate jobs better.

Food - Of course I’m going to keep the food posts going!

What do you want to see me blog about?

[najmetender]

Lately I've been finding it really amusing at how my present self would appear to my late teen self - probably very boring, and very content with very little. I'm actually incredibly pleased by that.

Long form blogging is still happening over at my website! I post a little something each week just to get my writing gears going, and I’m hoping for cool new exciting things in future~

www.najmahsalam.com/blog

[najmetender]

Another week's gone by and I think it's safe to say that nothing has quite captured my attention the way the release of the brand new Fallout 4 trailer has. It's kind of an understatement to say that I love the Fallout series. Fallout New Vegas is the first video game that got me into gaming in a big way, and made me realise all the things that video games were capable of.

New blog post over on my website! This week I focused on my love for the Fallout universe - sorry but I’m just not going to speculate on what the new game has in store.

In fact, I’m going to try and forget on purpose that the whole thing is even happening until the day it actually comes out :O