The Emigration
After running on several blogs for several topics, I decided that it was probably best to not only compile everything into one space, but also do it on this cute bearblog site.
What about Bearblog?
Herman seems like the guy who's aware of the modern day issues with big corpo and consumerism and the evergrowing problem of fast-paced media. I support his cause and his dedication to build something for a better place, but I'm still highly hestitant on upgrading my site, as much as he runs on PPP - big win by the way, this writer has the same appraisal towards it as I do.
His bear manifesto also goes into detail on why and how exactly he plans to grow this project. I find his thoughts really endearing, and I do resonate with a lot of them. One thing that stood out to me is his legal structure segment. Not all institutions, monasteries and family businesses last forever but I like his idea of not growing by means of capitalism but instead family-oriented means.
What about paying?
Why I'm mostly hestitant is just a matter of personal consideration on spending and priorities. I'm not on the brink of poverty but I don't like to spend too much on what seems tertiary. I am by no means a techwiz or a programmer so I'm not sure if I will even ever bring this bearblog site to its full potential once upgraded, because I'm happy with it as it is.
At one point I had the consideration that purchasing the upgraded version might bring some sense of accountability towards this blog that I will have no choice but find some way to stay consistent to avoid letting it rot, but then again I have to ask myself how seriously am I trying to take this blogging matter in comparison to other things I have?
What about your blogs?
Everything is now compiled into one space, like I said in my homepage - that is to avoid feeling overwhelmed. Running several blogs made me feel like I had to write for various things at once, but compiling them turned it into this impression that I only had to write for one.
Another thing that this gave me was a sense of liberation. When it came to writing for each a seperate blog, it was as if I could write only within a certain confine of topics. I don't think it's changed much but since everything has been amalgamated into one, it creates this false idea that I have variety over which topic I can write on.
Are you sure?
There was a lot of mental friction at play with everything I mentioned above, blogging all together became more and more discouraging and I completely abandoned it at several points. It also didn't help that Blogger was laid out in a rather elaborate way and there was too much customization, all I did was get distracted by it as a means to procrastinate on blogging.
It also didn't help any more that I had eyes lurking all around me. Everyday I log on to Blogger I am faced by the number of views that my posts have gotten me, right on the list of posts alongside drafts. At first I tried not to let it get to me but as the numbers grow it got me wondering 'who the hell are these people reading my blogs?' and for whatever reason made me uncomfortable, so it became more distracting than encouraging.
By moving my stuff here, I can hopefully be at peace away from people who lurk after me because I have not told a single acquainted soul of this place, also away from analytics because the one here is extremely vague unless you upgrade your site, so you're left with no choice but to pretty much mind your own writing more than your analytics. That's another thing I'm really happy about.
Hopefully this is the last time I have to move around and hopefully this time I can stick to what I said I wanted to do, because I've given it up way too many times at this point.