Hello World

So… what are we doing here?

It’s an extremely reasonable question to be asking to be honest. Fundamentally, there’s been a spot I have needed to make and do things with on the internet for almost twenty years now. There are two key items I think I’ve learned that drive this:

1. Democracy Photos die in darkness.
2. Maybe Livejournal wasn’t so bad*

Regarding photos, I’ve amassed over 50k of them, and the vast majority of them have been viewed once or twice (at most) by me, and far far fewer have been viewed by another person. Being locked in Lightroom or on a nas drive somewhere is not great. I don’t expect to take the photoblog world by storm, nor do I expect folks to find this site organically. I do, however, hope that I can be more intentional and share my photos with family and friends.

As for the glib Livejournal comment, I think that as the internet has evolved, and web2.0/social media taking over, we lost something as a world wide community. Webrings and no kidding blogs are actually pretty interesting, provided you can find the right niche. Raymond Chen’s The New Old Thing is a pernnial favorite of mine, though as time has passed, I’ve fallen out of the habit of keeping up. Everyone has a story to tell and share, if not for mass consumption, but for the process of reflecting and memorializing. In the digital age, we’re bad at this, extremly bad at this. Volume is high, quality is low. When everything is documented, nothing is documented.

I am sure I’ll fall trap to the same thing that everyone else ever has - not updating something and letting it languish - but for now, let’s give this a shot.

What’s next?

dmc

*I am exceedingly glad my livejournal no longer exists. It was that bad.