The northlondonhippy

My “100 post in 100 days chal­lenge” seems to be work­ing out for me so far and for you too, my beloved hip­py­fans. Just check out all the new content!

Forc­ing myself to get back into the very good habit of post­ing at least once a day is help­ing to focus my mind and improve my writ­ing. I’ve been very slack of late and my daily out­put has suf­fered as a result of this. I don’t just mean here on the hippy, but with other things I’ve been work­ing on too.

Recently I asked, is this still a blog? With new found par­tic­i­pa­tion on my part, does that mean my site is becom­ing a blog again?

I think that would depend upon your def­i­n­i­tion of a blog, or weblog to give it the full title.

I rarely tell you what I’ve had for lunch, which in my mind is a pre­req­ui­site com­po­nent of any blog, so I’ve already failed my first test. In gen­eral, this site has evolved into far less of a diary of my life, and is more of a forum to express my views on what­ever par­tic­u­lar sub­ject (or lack thereof) takes my fancy.

Post­ing every day also doesn’t jus­tify call­ing this a blog, as some blog­gers post dozens of times a day, oth­ers post spo­rad­i­cally and oth­ers still don’t post at all. Remem­ber ghost blogs?

I sup­pose the one thing that really decides if this site is a blog or not is whether I wish to call it one. I sup­pose it makes life eas­ier for every­one to think of me as a blog­ger and this site as a blog. Oth­er­wise, I could end up leav­ing myself devoid of descrip­tion. If I’m not a blog­ger, what am I in the generic sense?

I’m not the web­mas­ter here, I don’t actu­ally admin­is­ter my own site, I mainly pro­vide cre­ative direc­tion and con­tent. I didn’t design the lay­out, the graph­ics, I didn’t even choose the Word­Press soft­ware that is the tech­ni­cal frame­work we use here.

If I was to choose a title for myself; one that actu­ally expresses what I’m presently doing here, I would prob­a­bly opt for “inter­net colum­nist”. It doesn’t exactly trip pleas­ingly off the tongue, though and there is no obvi­ous short­en­ing of it to “net­nist” or “net­col” either. Per­haps I defy description?

It wouldn’t be the first time!

Just as I am a mis­fit in the real world, a square peg for an end­less suc­ces­sion of round holes, I’m exactly the same in my online incar­na­tion. Maybe, I’m what­ever I want to be that day, or only for the par­tic­u­lar post I’m writing.

I might pop up one day and tell you what I’ve had for lunch. I might review a film or a TV show, or talk about my love of elec­tron­ics and gad­gets, or rec­om­mend some music (which I haven’t done in ages!) or most likely, I might tell you again why legal­is­ing drugs makes sense. I might tell you anything!

The one thing you can be cer­tain of is that what­ever I’m writ­ing about, I’ll tell the truth about it to the best of my abil­ity, I’ll be hon­est about myself and the world around me. I’ve been doing that since day one and I don’t intend to change that now!

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