If there’s one thing I detest about blogs, especially startup blogs, is how often posts are about blogging, how the blogger is blogging, what sorts of things the blogger wants to blog about, and why the blogger hasn’t been blogging as much as they wanted to in the past. Blargh!

So in this post, I’m going to talk about my blogging.

As I look over my archives, I see fast-dwindling entries over the past years. Parenting four little kids certainly has something to do with the demise in content. It could also be that we’ve replaced our blogging with tidbit shares on Facebook and Twitter. I used to host a ginormous image gallery on here for family members, but that has been overtaken by Facebook sharing and Picasa Web Albums. Blogging itself certainly has a “Pre-2010” (or 2013, whatever year this seems to be) feel to it. So why bother continuing to run this site?

I have a fully separate website I maintain about myself. Proudly clinging to Web 1.0 technologies, it touches on the family now and then, but mostly it’s about yours truly, Benjamin Flessner. In some rare fantasies I see it becoming hugely popular or inspiring some brand new in-depth friendships. Realistically, I know very few people will ever see it, read it, or even know about it. I do it simply for the process of self-discovery it fulfills in an introvert like me. It’s essentially a large “about me” done in a somewhat geeky way.  Honestly, how many people make websites about themselves that include their favorite comics, details about each computer they’ve owned, book summaries, and an interactive guess-my-quirky-personality-entries game with a hidden database? While it does contain a ‘Ramblings’ page, which at this point is essentially where things too long for Twitter end up, there’s no real “journal-like” aspect to it.

Until my wife or kids start up posting family-related issues on here, this blog will be serving as my public journal. Over the last few years, I’ve been trying to journal my life more often. Many times a few minutes of plunking away at a keyboard yields a fascinating plan or goal that helps me through a tough problem or just overall improves some aspect of my life. Sticking with it has been a huge problem, but having some sort of accountability always helps. This blog will be my accountability. Those numbers over in the calendar/archive will motivate me to keep content flowing, so the blog doesn’t stagnate again.

At least that’s what I say now. Time will tell if this is truth, or if 2013 is going to end up with only a single post.