Aug 7, 2025
Coffee shop dates with my feelings. I was just thinking that a new section where I confront how I've been feeling about things - instead of distracting myself with the algorithm.
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Coffee shop dates with my feelings. I was just thinking that a new section where I confront how I've been feeling about things - instead of distracting myself with the algorithm.
I want more about how I use Tumblr to be less about scrolling and finding - but more about documenting the life and thoughts that I am creating. Although I will collect a group of blogs to follow that I care about, that's more of an eventual thing.
bl0men here! I've started this blog as a way to reconnect to myself. I have a LOT of thoughts, ideas, and takes - but I don't ever really see a place where I can have them emerge and interact with each other. I tried Substack (I love Substack), but before I dump every thought and idea there, I think it's important for me to let them breathe a little. I am excited to see where this blog goes and what emerges from the thoughts, images and moments that I collect. bl0men out!
If I could start my blog over, I would...(with thanks to BritMums prompt)
Life Circle Week 3
Really? Do you want to do a magazine because you want to be an editor—what you think that life is, that romance—or do you want to communicate? Because if you want to communicate, why the fuck would you put all those obstacles in your path and have to print pages, as opposed to going right on the Internet and actually communicating?
(It shocks me when young kids still say, 'I want to do a magazine,' " he says)
Scott Schuman
Read More http://www.gq.com/style/profiles/201206/scott-schuman-sartorialist-gq-june-2012-interview#ixzz1w63JarDy
Playlist catchup
So, I'm finally catching up on posting playlists - I've got them all queued up to post once per day (and two on Saturday), so as to not be spamalicious (maliciously spamful).
I'll be back on Saturday at 5pm, and there are no imminent preemptions for basketball!
I've also enabled commenting via Disqus on all posts - go ahead, drop me a line! You can also make requests or ask other questions at http://djdiskette.tumblr.com/ask/
Meta-blog. Also, post numero uno.
It's been a while since I maintained a personal blog filled with fluid posts that were mindless and completely centered around me. As I grew up, I saw how blogs were quickly becoming more than journals or places to document stuff you like. No, blogs were turning into semi-formal spaces where people wrote things with the intention of mainly "sharing" them, thus becoming more self-aware of themselves and their behaviour. There came about a need to "stand out" or "impress" and so people started doing a lot of creative things with their blogs.
There's no denying that this is an amazing phenomenon. Today blogs are being used by individuals, groups, individual professionals and institutions in various nifty ways. While it's great to see that, I can't help but remember some of the earliest blogs that I saw on Geocities and other platforms. I remember with particular fondness kottke.org written and maintained by Jason Kottke since 1998. If you look at his archives in the early years and his recent posts, there's a world of difference between them. People change and their blog themes and layouts do too. I can't say that I don't miss the personal touch.
When video blogs started to rise up in the popularity charts, a similar trend followed. Have you seen the first ever YouTube video? It shows one of the founders of YouTube just doing an 18 second video of him at the zoo! It's not spectacular. It isn't even a nice introduction to YouTube and all its features. It's a simple, unassuming clip from a man's normal, everyday life. Today there are tens of thousands of videos and channels on YouTube and other video logging sites like Vimeo that are built to entertain and inform.
As an early adopter of all non-techie aspects of the Internet, watching this growth has been an incredible experience for me. I wouldn't have had it any differently. It's just that... sometimes I miss reading those occasional posts about people's lives -- about looking outside through tainted windows in a bus, having a bad day at school/work, receiving good news that makes their day... I'm not saying that such blogs no longer exist - far from it! I'm only saying that they're a lot harder to come across as they used to be.
At the end of the day, a blog is a space and it's a bloody good thing to see how people arrange various elements in it their own manner of choice.