Blogging and blogging clutter

A Beginning

My first blog post was in 2004, almost 15 years go. It was a beginning.  I had no idea if it was something I would keep doing.¹

Sometimes my blogging has been sporadic.  Other times, it’s no more than sharing an image.  But, I’ve never stopped doing it

A huge number of blogs started up both before and after I did.  Most  no longer exist in any form, other than, perhaps, the Internet Archive’s WayBackMachine.² While most of the blogs I used to follow no longer exist, some continue, with varying frequencies of posting. A few post daily.

A Renewal

I’ve started going through some of my old blog posts, many of which have problems.  I’m going to cleanup and, probably, repost an updated version of some of the better ones.  For these, I’ll have a redirect on the old post to send visitors to the new posts.

I’ll also cleanup some of the clutter.  When, and if, I get done, I’ll probably have quite a bit less than the 2700 posts that are currently listed as published.

Some of the earlier posts have no images or images that could be improved. On some posts, original images have gone missing.  Some of the “cleanup’” may be no more than adding a relevant image or two or replacing missing or less than optimum images.

1. That first blog post was on Blogger. The blog was called Skedaddle’s blog and was posted on Blogger on a blogspot.com domain. I didn’t care much for Blogger and looked at a number of different options, eventually settling for blogging using WordPress self-hosted.  Sometime in 2011, after I dropped that URL, someone else picked it up, using it for a blog that has a grand total of 3 posts, all of them in 2011.
2. I’ve used the WayBackMachine to retrieve quite a few posts that were lost for one reason or another, including those that were on my original blog.