First post is always the hardest one...
... because you need to rationalize why you returned back to blogging, which is an old trend on the internet --even 'lame' for teens, and give an explanation on what readers should expect to read here. It's like an introduction of a long article, it needs to be effective. Remember the pilot of two extremely popular TV series Heroes and Lost? Maybe because of the success of the pilot (first episode), it convinced millions of people to follow them for 4-5 seasons, although the writers of both certainly screwed up towards the end... But millions of followers? Let's not get ahead of ourselves, I'm staring to write here just for fun, not to become popular, or earn money, or for any other selfish reason.
Why blogging now? I always wanted to log my life, then return back after a couple of years and read what I've done in a random day. I'm passively logging my day with the help of foursquare and Momento, but I also want put my story and my life journey into words, remember important moments that I'll forget eventually... Besides, I try to follow the news about technological developments and design for the last 6-7 years, and I frequently share some of those posts through Google Reader; however, there are a limited number of people to follow me. I hope this blog makes my shared news more accessible.
Why in English? I don't really have a proper keyboard to write in Turkish :P That's not a valid excuse of course. If you remember, I was authoring for a website called acikbilgi.com (the domain is gone now, I didn't pay for the domain name for the last 2 years), and it was taking me long hours of work to post a single new to the website, because it was in Turkish! The reason? I was too picky about my words, my sentence structures, terms, everything. After all, it was my native language, and it would be a shame for me if I write like teenagers posting on twitter... Because of my unnecessary perfectionism on writing in Turkish, I lost my interest after some time, and the website was gone, with all its content, for good. But now, English isn't my native language and I don't really care about the grammatical/structural errors I made. If a sentence sounds good, it's good enough. Besides, things that I share are almost always in English, so why bother translating each of them? Anyways, people will find a way to translate if necessary (p.s. use Chrome).
What to find? Like I said, I'll share the tech/design news that I find interesting. On top of that, I'll try to bring back memories about computer world starting from my childhood and try to picture every important event in my life as possible. If I share your name publicly I'll let you know that I'm posting something related to you, so give you the chance to participate. I'm sure you had similar recollections if you were born in mid 80s, and hope that you feel a similar nostalgia with my writings.
One last note: use this address to view my posts, new blogger templates are the reason I returned back to blogging again...
-- Barcelona, Spain
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| Panoromic view of Sagrada Familia and Torre Agbar from Park Guell (Barcelona) |
Why blogging now? I always wanted to log my life, then return back after a couple of years and read what I've done in a random day. I'm passively logging my day with the help of foursquare and Momento, but I also want put my story and my life journey into words, remember important moments that I'll forget eventually... Besides, I try to follow the news about technological developments and design for the last 6-7 years, and I frequently share some of those posts through Google Reader; however, there are a limited number of people to follow me. I hope this blog makes my shared news more accessible.
Why in English? I don't really have a proper keyboard to write in Turkish :P That's not a valid excuse of course. If you remember, I was authoring for a website called acikbilgi.com (the domain is gone now, I didn't pay for the domain name for the last 2 years), and it was taking me long hours of work to post a single new to the website, because it was in Turkish! The reason? I was too picky about my words, my sentence structures, terms, everything. After all, it was my native language, and it would be a shame for me if I write like teenagers posting on twitter... Because of my unnecessary perfectionism on writing in Turkish, I lost my interest after some time, and the website was gone, with all its content, for good. But now, English isn't my native language and I don't really care about the grammatical/structural errors I made. If a sentence sounds good, it's good enough. Besides, things that I share are almost always in English, so why bother translating each of them? Anyways, people will find a way to translate if necessary (p.s. use Chrome).
What to find? Like I said, I'll share the tech/design news that I find interesting. On top of that, I'll try to bring back memories about computer world starting from my childhood and try to picture every important event in my life as possible. If I share your name publicly I'll let you know that I'm posting something related to you, so give you the chance to participate. I'm sure you had similar recollections if you were born in mid 80s, and hope that you feel a similar nostalgia with my writings.
One last note: use this address to view my posts, new blogger templates are the reason I returned back to blogging again...
-- Barcelona, Spain
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