Some History of This Blog and How it Got Its Name
SOME History of this Blog, and How it got it's Name
At one point I had this on my side bar. My Side Bar is way too crowded.
It is now a post with an old date (way older than the article) with a link on my side bar.
At one point, this was going to be a semi-political blog. I was going to discuss subjects I cared about becoming more aware of. This is the reason for the name
"Views Under Construction".
My initial purpose was to use this blog to continue discussions which had merged off track, while responding to other people's blogs. (Not that I am anti discussion-hijacking completely, but at some point it becomes very irritating to the blog host.)
As a side benefit I figured I would get a chance to practice writing. When I was in college, I intentionally avoided classes which required much writing (unless it involved writing computer code, which I have always enjoyed). Now I have decided that writing is a much more valuable skill than I previously thought.
At some point, my combination of a few political posts, and a few technical posts related to Blogger, lead to my blog showing up (rather high in the rankings) for things my blog did not cover. When I first noticed this, I thought it might be fun to base each post on the queries which were hitting my blog. OK, I admit I was just playing around with the rankings and trying to see what would happen.
But if someone landed on my blog, seeking that answer, then they didn't get the answer they needed, with the posts which showed up before mine. So by providing the answer, on my blog, I figured it was adding some value.
As I was researching some of the answers I got caught up in this whole myspace customization thing. I keep telling myself I am dropping it and moving on to something which is a far better use of my time, like writing widgets for facebook.
Seriously, I could use my time to attend Grad School; something I often tell my Boss that I really don't have time for.
(My boss, makes regular attempts to convince me I should attend grad school).
As for my current view of political blogging:
I found the below quote on Scott Adams'(author of Dilbert) blog page which best describes it:
"If you think that disagreeing and offering excellent reasons for your thinking will change anyone's mind, you might be new on this planet."
At one point I had this on my side bar. My Side Bar is way too crowded.
It is now a post with an old date (way older than the article) with a link on my side bar.
At one point, this was going to be a semi-political blog. I was going to discuss subjects I cared about becoming more aware of. This is the reason for the name
"Views Under Construction".
My initial purpose was to use this blog to continue discussions which had merged off track, while responding to other people's blogs. (Not that I am anti discussion-hijacking completely, but at some point it becomes very irritating to the blog host.)
As a side benefit I figured I would get a chance to practice writing. When I was in college, I intentionally avoided classes which required much writing (unless it involved writing computer code, which I have always enjoyed). Now I have decided that writing is a much more valuable skill than I previously thought.
At some point, my combination of a few political posts, and a few technical posts related to Blogger, lead to my blog showing up (rather high in the rankings) for things my blog did not cover. When I first noticed this, I thought it might be fun to base each post on the queries which were hitting my blog. OK, I admit I was just playing around with the rankings and trying to see what would happen.
But if someone landed on my blog, seeking that answer, then they didn't get the answer they needed, with the posts which showed up before mine. So by providing the answer, on my blog, I figured it was adding some value.
As I was researching some of the answers I got caught up in this whole myspace customization thing. I keep telling myself I am dropping it and moving on to something which is a far better use of my time, like writing widgets for facebook.
Seriously, I could use my time to attend Grad School; something I often tell my Boss that I really don't have time for.
(My boss, makes regular attempts to convince me I should attend grad school).
As for my current view of political blogging:
I found the below quote on Scott Adams'(author of Dilbert) blog page which best describes it:
"If you think that disagreeing and offering excellent reasons for your thinking will change anyone's mind, you might be new on this planet."
posted by uāāl!ā at Tuesday, October 31, 2006
1 Comments:
"Views Under Construction" in a nutshell... nice history hehe, keep up the good work.
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