In January 2007, I read an article in Wired (I think) about this new social media site called Twitter, so I signed up for an account to make sure I had my username (I’ve been using the name Hayles online since 1998 which is bloody ridiculous tbh when you think about it), ignored the account […]
Blogging
20 Years of Blogging
I’ve been trying to write this post for a while, and I don’t know why it’s been so difficult to get pen to paper or fingers to keys (and yes, I did both to write this – I’ve always preferred writing with pen and paper…even sketching out then hand writing HTML back in 2000/1 when […]
No, Blogging Isn’t Dead
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve seen a blog post or a tweet or whatever proclaiming that blogging is dead (or asking it), then I’d be rolling around in a huge pile of cash, à la Scrooge McDuck (side note, I have been watching the new Ducktales series and it is actually the […]
15 Years
In 2000/2001 (I don’t remember the exact date, but the first snapshot that I can find on archive.org is 17th May 2001 – I know I had it for like a year before that though!), I bought a domain via a friend and started what we now know as a blog. Back then? I can’t […]
#blogclub
photo by Black Heart Creatives Today marks a year since the very first #blogclub. Apparently I’ve never written about it here, which is weird since it was such a big part of last year so thought it was about time. A few years ago, I was thinking “hey, wouldn’t it be cool to have a […]