I’ve been thinking a lot about dreading my blog lately. I think it’s the date-stamps. They’re oppressing me.
I heard Anil Dash talk at Northern Voice last weekend, and he explained the date-stamp as a kind of social-contract that says to people ‘I promise to post more here soon.’ That was pretty timely for me — I’d been thinking about taking the date-stamps off of my blog, so that I could feel like less of a turd when I don’t post anything for months and months. I still might. Who knows?
Anyway, I’m sorry I broke my promise. In the interest of our friendship, dear reader , I’ll be perfectly honest (I mean, it’s not like there’s many of you, so I think I can get away with it) — I can’t promise that I’ll post more here soon. All I can promise is that in between now and the time that I post again, which will likely be months from now, I’ll be feeling guilty about this gaping void of a blog at least once daily.
Cheers to that!
hey at least you have a website/blog you can be proud of. i’ve been secretly planning a complete redesign and move to drupal 5 since…oh, about november.
but even famous web developers post intermittently, so i think it’s safe to say we all feel guilty, aaron. we all do.
aaron!! i emailed you at work, i think. i’m not sure. i googled you. but you should get back to me and tell me all about life and everything.
miss you.
Sometimes, I change the date-stamp a bit to create the illusion of frequent, well-spaced posts. In the meantime, enjoy the real world.
Thanks, Carey. Nice blog, by the way!