tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138994904411225576.post8579589483899743830..comments2023-12-29T00:08:21.051-08:00Comments on fear of a red planet: Why I (Still) Blog Gilman Grundyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06607416440240634159noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138994904411225576.post-13846275530361343802017-10-17T13:00:47.111-07:002017-10-17T13:00:47.111-07:00@Ji Xiang - Agreed. Stuff on Twitter or other plat...@Ji Xiang - Agreed. Stuff on Twitter or other platforms disappears down the memory hole too quickly. The flip-side to this, of course, is that Blogs remind us of what we've already said so it is rather clearer when we are just saying the same thing over and over again than it is on Twitter!<br /><br />@Justrecently - Well, blogs certainly didn't live up to their original hype, but I never find myself wondering why I blog. I simply think of something worth writing about, and write about it. I think it must be harder for you as you keep up a regular schedule of posts - indeed I quite admire people who do this.Gilman Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06607416440240634159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138994904411225576.post-72943437213369608272017-10-16T09:15:43.257-07:002017-10-16T09:15:43.257-07:00Blogs were at times overrated - I remember getting...Blogs were at times overrated - I remember getting links from a WSJ China blog in the past, and from the SCMP. There's a book, too, somewhere out there that used a translation of mine of a Double-Ten speech by Tsai Ing-wen, while she was first running for president.<br /><br />And sometimes, I'm wondering, why I'm still blogging - but it's for the fun of it, and because I'm reading and listening to lots of Far-East related stuff anyway.<br /><br />I think that as a rule, there's no way that you can be creative and live of that - Michael Jackson and Friedrich Schiller tried - look where it got them. And Goethe, who reached a really good old age, spent much of his working life as a statesman (and hardly wrote a single line of poetry while on duty.justrecentlyhttps://justrecently.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138994904411225576.post-33734148687234422122017-10-15T19:17:08.000-07:002017-10-15T19:17:08.000-07:00I cannot understand how anyone might think that Fa...I cannot understand how anyone might think that Facebook and Twitter have "replaced" blogging. It's a totally different environment and form of communication. <br /><br />Among other things, I feel that if I write an entry in my blog it is far more "permanent". If I write a comment or a status update on Facebook, the chances of anyone coming across it years later are around zero. But people still come across blog posts I wrote in 2011 through Google. As long as I don't delete them, I feel like my blog posts are almost a part of humanity's collective body of literature. Slightly grandiloquent I know, but for a moderately popular blog which perfect strangers chance across and read, probably reasonable.Ji Xianghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03406727999722525339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9138994904411225576.post-76202503117575672962017-10-15T13:51:11.089-07:002017-10-15T13:51:11.089-07:00PS - Because these posts often draw a particularly...PS - Because these posts often draw a particularly tiresome troll, I've switched on moderation.Gilman Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06607416440240634159noreply@blogger.com