Once again it is quite late to be going to bed, and I am writing up my post for the day. A couple of years ago I did a month of “Me Today” videos. Each day I would record something on video and post it up to Viddler. With the me todays the idea was to post a bit about your day, and I usually ended up talking about my thoughts of the day. Since it literally was about my day I could just say “I did x y and z today” and be done. The practice was a good one, and I ended up with quite a few videos that I liked that were more than just a “dear diary” on video. Those posts ended up embedded on this blog.
Blog posting seems a bit more challenging. Since this blog isn’t just a diary I don’t just post “Today was really cold and I spend a minimal amount of time in the sukkah”. Instead I look for a bit more meat. The challenge is, of course, that the reason I set a goal of a post a day was to get me in the practice of writing. Just like the me todays got me in the practice of sitting in front of a camera and speaking, here I am attempting to do the same with my words.
Today I tried writing about some further thoughts on the “global town hall” view of new media. My husband and I had a great discussion on it last night and I thought I had the post in my mind. However, once I started typing the words I found that I had so many thoughts all jumbled together that they could not make a coherent post, not even a one that I could “get away with and edit later.” So, that post is sitting in draft. Instead, this post is a “me today” sort of post. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
