Jason Kottke says blogs are dead:
Sometime in the past few years, the blog died. In 2014, people will finally notice… Instead of blogging, people are posting to Tumblr, tweeting, pinning things to their board, posting to Reddit, Snapchatting, updating Facebook statuses, Instagramming, and publishing on Medium.
Of course he doesn’t mean that all blogs are dead, but the medium is definitely not as strong as it once was. That absolutely applies to this site (and my business site, where I’ve completly hidden my blog…at least for now). I don’t really have a whole lot I feel I want to say or share, so I don’t. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” (Lincoln? Twain? The internet can’t agree on an attribution to that quote, but it’s still a good one.)
Most of my little observations end up on Facebook — if anyone cares what I say, it’s more likely to be my family and friends. Why add to the noise of the world about Apple, the Red Sox (they won the 2014 World Series and there’s not even mention of it on this blog), music…whatever. My kids are getting older and I’m doing more to respect their privacy, hence no public videos or photos. I haven’t shot any share-worthy photos to post to my Flickr. But I’m fine with that — the world goes on without my little posts.
So that’s why things have been pretty quiet on kieranchapman.net for months. An occasional post may appear here and there, but for the most part I’ll keep on quietly doing my thing.