So I've managed to post at least once a month since July of 2016, right up until April this year. Now I've been quiet for quite a few months.
I'll be honest I'm struggling with what's worth sharing. I think in the current world, the purpose and use of the internet has become a lot messier than it was in by-gone days and given the amounts of hate and misinformation, I don't know what to put into the world.
As I'm sure I've posted in these time after time, I hate it when projects go away without word, so I've keep these Blog-End-and-Start Days around as a way to give myself a natural point if the blog were to end...
Damn it, is this a quitting YouTube Video in text form?
It might be. Ah, well. Alas.
So, here's where I'm at. I don't know that I want to share a lot about my life. The easier and safer-feeling days of the Internet have faded and putting time and the energy into online spaces doesn't feel compelling. I'm still thinking projecty things, but, for my own mental health, I've manage to adjust my perception about how what I do relates to who I am, and so I'm feeling less like the things I'm working on need to be shared and also feeling like I'm in a period where there's a lot of learning and work I want to do without an audience.
I've also discovered that journaling has been really beneficial for capturing my thoughts in a way I used to feel I needed an audience for. That has honestly been the best thing to support my mind through the end of Twitter and for my mental health over all. I started journaling after reading from somewhere (possibly in Twitter) that it was a good idea to have a record of your life that couldn't get destroyed or lost by a tech company, and a good hard-bound paper book has turned out to be a wonder in a lot of ways.
Also it lets me buy stationary and that's always fun.
What's next? Well, a few things.
I will still post here, but I think we can count all of the projects as "on hiatus" at least for now. That includes the blog-as-blog, although I may have bloggy things I want to post here too. I'm on Mastodon, at @tjkendon@mstdn.ca and @tjkendon@scholar.socal, I'm pretty quiet there too, but I may expand depending on what makes sense to do. I guess I'm also on BlueSky, but kind of quietly. Finally I've been thinking a lot about learning technologies and have some things I do want to share in my work context so I expect I'll be more present on "Teaching & Learning".
It's also (really, seriously this time) time to move this blog off of Blogspot. I'm honestly baffled at this point that of all the Google products this is still here, but 1) It's been janky as hell since ... I started posting and 2) I think in this current world being intentional about ownership of your digital footprint is more critical than ever. So you can expect to see what ever I do in a new space, but we can hope that Feedburner will keep things moving along smoothly. I will leave lots of signage, blinkenlights and breadcrumbs.
So it's not good bye, but it is see you around.
Go make something, but mostly be good to each other.
TJ
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