Comments on: You Want a Blog. You Need a Blog. (with Apologies to the WPA Listserv.) http://ryantrauman.com/blog/2010/01/06/you-want-a-blog-you-need-a-blog-with-apologies-to-the-wpa-listserv/ Trauman's Blog: Writing. Reading. Technology. Book History. Book Future. Digital Scholarship. Blogging. Teaching. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:14:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Trauman http://ryantrauman.com/blog/2010/01/06/you-want-a-blog-you-need-a-blog-with-apologies-to-the-wpa-listserv/comment-page-1/#comment-12681 Trauman Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:04:41 +0000 http://ryantrauman.com/blog/2010/01/06/you-want-a-blog-you-need-a-blog-with-apologies-to-the-wpa-listserv/#comment-12681 I agree, Jentetry. I like the idea of this blog as being some sort of a record of how my own scholarly identity emerges from a relative discontinuous set of musings and preoccupations. Also, I've been searching it already, per your usage-guess, to find/follow/connect different dissertation threads. Thanks for the comment. I agree, Jentetry. I like the idea of this blog as being some sort of a record of how my own scholarly identity emerges from a relative discontinuous set of musings and preoccupations. Also, I’ve been searching it already, per your usage-guess, to find/follow/connect different dissertation threads. Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Jentery http://ryantrauman.com/blog/2010/01/06/you-want-a-blog-you-need-a-blog-with-apologies-to-the-wpa-listserv/comment-page-1/#comment-12679 Jentery Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:37:05 +0000 http://ryantrauman.com/blog/2010/01/06/you-want-a-blog-you-need-a-blog-with-apologies-to-the-wpa-listserv/#comment-12679 Another reason to blog? Documenting your work, archiving it in a database, and searching it a few years later, only to learn you said that already! Of course building and sustaining communities is great, as is dialogue, but I think people under-value the blog as a portfolio in the iterative development of projects, thoughts, and ... well ... life. Even without an audience (e.g., passcode-protected), they have plenty of value for me. And I don't think they are going anywhere soon. Look at how many websites are using WordPress as a platform these days! Designers get hired to build for WordPress, not Dreamweaver or the like. I like the new look, btw. Thanks, Trauman. Another reason to blog? Documenting your work, archiving it in a database, and searching it a few years later, only to learn you said that already!

Of course building and sustaining communities is great, as is dialogue, but I think people under-value the blog as a portfolio in the iterative development of projects, thoughts, and … well … life. Even without an audience (e.g., passcode-protected), they have plenty of value for me.

And I don’t think they are going anywhere soon. Look at how many websites are using WordPress as a platform these days! Designers get hired to build for WordPress, not Dreamweaver or the like.

I like the new look, btw. Thanks, Trauman.

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