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My name is Mills Baker; I write about love, culture, art, religion, mental illness, philosophy, memory, politics and the rather random.

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CREATING A GOOD BLOG IS LIKE WRITING A GOOD BOOK THAT NO ONE READS PAST THE FIRST PAGE

Cursive Buildings:

creating a good blog is like hiding your treasure under piles of new treasure.
creating a bad blog is like burying your trash under piles of new trash.

i try to walk a fine line around here.

This is one formal issue with a blog’s structure, and it weighs on me. Who hasn’t been tempted to resurrect something from the previous year and show it again, knowing that now it is dead and gone, buried in the damp earth of the archive? Who doesn’t sometimes feel that the blog mirrors, in its obsession with the instantaneous present or the very-near past, our own time’s preoccupation with the now over history, the immediate over the reflective?

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    :) I agree. You share things. You share your life. You share each and evrything in you life.
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    it really depends who you are publishing your blog for. if you are writing it for you, and think it’s all treasure, then...
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    One way to address this is to allow positive reader feedback (or Likes) and backlinks (or Reblogs) to float content to...
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    I think of it as a wheel rather than a waterfall. Most bits I post here are significant enough to me to come back around...
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    Cursive Buildings:...one formal issue with...blog’s...
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    “Lolita. Light...my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-Lee-Ta.” rinse repeat, apparently.
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