monkey see, monkey do serves as a personal blog and creative outlet for
david evans.
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just read a short account of sir nicholas winton, on a documentary film web site about winton. sir winton just celebrated his 100th birthday.
like the kindertransport program, he organized an effort to rescue jewish children before the outbreak of world war 2 and placed 669 children into british foster homes.
you gotta love it when people get all sophisticated and philosophic with their bumper stickers. saw this yesterday on a walk.
this indie caught my attention. the poetic subtitle is so buddhist: life is hard, life is short, life is painful, life is rich, and life is precious.
when i started blogging — over five years ago now — the intention was to better stay in touch with folks in an increasingly hectic life. blogging was an experiment in new techniques for that, and also a potential creative outlet or place to introspect or retrospect, albeit publicly.
since then, new tools have emerged. i didn’t think all that much of myspace and friendster at first, though i know some friends who lived in them. now microblogging like twitter make it easier to send short updates and links. i send a lot more text messages now than i did five years ago. so does blogging still serve my original purpose? not really as much, except as a creative outlet.
do you find your use of blogs is changing? another aspect i think is that when i started this was only known to friends and family. i wasn’t trying to explicitly be anonymous, but with obscurity that was practically the case. now as i freelance i have a sense that everything is always public and i have to assume my readers could be more diverse. yet, what would you the reader want to read about? without a clear sense of readership, what would one write? i’m over-thinking that.
but i think in summary i must reconsider the blog(s) to really be more just an outlet to write about what i feel inspired to write about — instead of any other purpose really. it no longer serves my original intentions, and that’s just how technology evolves.