Tag Archives: blogging

Re-Link from the Past

4 Jul

Browsing through my old posts, I came across one called “Blogging and Meta-Blogging“. Evidently I could actually write in 2009.

While the Smidgin has been a useful endeavor, helping me form my opinion on numerous topics, I fully admit that my writing skill in the early days was not fully developed (as if it is today). Some of the early posts are particularly bad.

But, “Blogging and Meta-Blogging” actually works. The observations are spot-on and the jokes are good. At least, I think so. So if I may indulge in self-flattery in this post, since I didn’t in that post, I’ll tell you to go read it.

Blogging and Meta-Blogging

21 Mar

The concept of “meta” is one of the most fascinating—and at times annoying—concepts that we are introduced to as we get older.  The idea that we can think about thought, discuss discussion, and blog about blogging is both eminently useful and unfortunately overused.  While it is one of the hallmarks of rational thought that we can contemplate what is going on in our own minds, it is also a crutch which is too easily used to abstract—and extract—ourselves from our problems.

That said, I will allow myself to indulge in a post about posting, for the purposes of, well, self-indulgence.  And also because there are a few good ideas to be had from the endeavor. (more…)

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