dan ho

New Year, New Blog design!

I have had a blog for the better part of the last decade, migrating from a self developed blogging platform to WordPress. The major advantage WordPress had over my self developed blog was the Akismet spam blocker. I think a milestone of a succcessful blog is to be the target of spammers.

Lately, I have not been blogging as much, with many posts sitting in my drafts folder and probably twice as many tossed out.

When I started journalism, I tried to make my blog about news and less about my personal thoughts.

I hardly post a blog without an accompanying picture and I loath posting pictures that were not taken by my own hand. I do not want my blog littered by images not originally seen with my own eyes.

I also toss out the topics when they become more than one or two days old. As a journalist, staying current is something that has been ingrained in me.

But I hear my poor neglected blog call to me and asks me to tell it a story. My story.

There has to be a difference between a personal blog and a news blog. I think my blog will return to containing words. Words which describe situations. Words which leave to your imagination the imagery that will take the place of pictures.

I shall endevour to post at least every other day or so.