I think I pushed the concept of a blog way beyond its expiry date (blog flogging). It has been amazing that Internet Social Concepts have always had a short lifespan. I started with Usenet, got myself in tremendous trouble, and then it died under truckloads of spam. Then I read practically every novel I would want to read. Then came Wikipedia, until it became frozen. I did the Knol thing (quick death!). I've put up videos on Youtube, and had years of blogging. The last two have died under commercial exploitation. I never did Facebook, which was designed from the beginning to harvest privacy.
I shall wait for the next thing, with great expectations.
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Wtf was that all about? Lol
I'm really doing it this time. All my hits are marketing bots, trying to sell to me.
Well, I liked your blog. Not everything about it, of course: your opinions on things you knew quite a lot about (earthquakes, AECL) were of a higher quality than things about which I think you knew less. But, that's a blog for you. At least you knew SOMETHING at an expert level, which is an amazing rarity in the blogosphere.)
Maybe I liked it because it reinforces my pessimistic impressions, gleaned from the experience of close family members, that too many areas of Canada's knowledge-base are going to suffer when the first wave of boomers either drop-out-in-disgust, retire or die. In the public or private sector, armies of bureaucratic box-tickers reporting to a very important central-control is not a method to usefully guide the activities of smart people.
I hope you find something fun and useful to do!
happy-happy!
joy-joy!
I too will miss your blog. I check it daily and find it interesting (the earthquake and geophysics parts). You brought a refreshing opinion to these areas of science.
Well, I'm still getting 1000 hits a day from the botnets.
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