{"id":4851,"date":"2013-07-01T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2013-07-01T08:08:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T08:08:39","slug":"theoreti-ca-more-than-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4851","title":{"rendered":"Theoreti.ca: more than 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realized the other day that I have been blogging for 10 years, as of June 11th, which seems like an anniversary. You can see my <a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5\">Welcome message here<\/a>. The WordPress Dashboard tells me I have 1,921 posts which means I have posted approximately once every two or three days. I confess there are times when I think I should just wrap it up and stop the blog as it feels like one more thing I have to do. On the other hand Theoreti.ca has been useful to me as a place where I know I can find my own notes (as long as I can get to the net). I think I&#8217;ll keep on going a bit more.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4854\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4854 aligncenter\" title=\"At the Tokyo Fish Market\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AtFishMarket-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Posing At the Tokyo Fish Market\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AtFishMarket-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AtFishMarket.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Posing at the Tokyo Fish Market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Theoreti.ca is not the first blog I started. Back in 2001-2 when blogs were the new thing (for me) I actually tried starting one a couple of times. The problem was that they were aspirational &#8211; I started blogs hoping I would live up to the aspirations for witty commentary I set myself. Needless to say, after a few posts I stopped writing and the blogs thankfully disappeared. Theoreti.ca worked because I set out only to keep research notes. I set myself a low bar &#8211; write stuff that you might find useful later. The <a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8\">second post<\/a> is an example of that &#8211; a list of possible &#8220;intersections of mathematics, computer science, philosophy and multimedia&#8221; that could make for a nice lecture series or conference. Not a lot of context, no wit, and not that useful to anyone but me.<\/p>\n<p>The question I ask myself now is whether blogging of this sort is out of date. Others tweet such short notes and WordPress is used more for web sites that need a news or essay function. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll keep going on a bit more, just in case blogs come back like bell-bottom jeans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized the other day that I have been blogging for 10 years, as of June 11th, which seems like an anniversary. You can see my Welcome message here. The WordPress Dashboard tells me I have 1,921 posts which means I have posted approximately once every two or three days. I confess there are times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4851\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Theoreti.ca: more than 10 years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging-culture","category-online-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}