New blog November 8, 2011
Posted by David Hiran Watson in Uncategorized.add a comment
So I finally started a new blog! It’s called “Musings on the Journey” and it can be found at http://dehin.posterous.com. For any who have followed this blog for a while, you will recall how I used to use dehin.posterous.com as dEhiN’s Posterous, and it was going to be a mirror of this blog. Actually, the idea was to accommodate my laziness and allow me to email posts to dEhiN’s Posterous, which in turn would get published/mirrored to here. That didn’t quite pan out.
I then decided to transform dEhiN’s Posterous into dEhiN’s Mediacast and make it a blog space just for my media posts (podcasts, vlogs, etc.). Of course that didn’t work either. And now I’ve decided to use the Posterous platform and create my new blog. Why?
Because I like the Posterous platform.
For the past two months I’ve had on the back of my mind the desire to start a new blog. I even posted here that I was moving. But I hadn’t found a good platform yet. Though, to be honest, that was partly due to my lack of researching blogging platforms!
But it all worked in the end. As time went on, the idea to start a new blog morphed. Instead of just blogging about my life, I also came to want a place to share my creative ideas from time to time. And just earlier tonight I was visiting dEhiN’s Mediacast, and saw that Posterous had made changes to their platform!
It’s still a blogging platform. And Posterous still allows embedding of media into posts. As well as emailing new posts for quick posting. But now they are using the terminology “Spaces” – you create a public or private space, not a blog! And I love that concept. It’s very up-to-date I think, and especially integrated. Sure, technically it’s the same as a blog. But it evokes (in me at least) the mental image of a blank canvas where I can utilize all the colours of the colour spectrum, not just the primary colours – describing things and posting using text.
The second but actually main reason I decided to start a new blog is this: for me this current blog (dEhiN’s Blog) has become associated with contemplations and musings I had during a struggling point in my life. I am not fully out of the forest I’ve been in for the past decade or so. But I am much nearer to the edge, I can definitely see the light of the meadow beyond clearer than ever before. And so, while I may still have posts about struggles and pain and hardship I’m facing, including thoughts related to this particular forest, I also will have posts of newness and hope and other things. And just as how in the non-digital world, it is good to physically and materially mark new stages in your life, I think it is just as good digitally.
So with that, I bid adieu to dEhiN’s Blog. Dear blog, you have served me well. May your archived posts forever remain a testament to a period in my life, and serve as a guide perhaps, or light, to others. Well…at least for as long as WordPress.com keeps this blog in its archives!
DH
