So I don’t write publicly much partly because I don’t want my thoughts to be immortalized online forever. Even if no one really notices or care, the fact that thoughts are out there means someday they could come back to haunt me. Or to help me…

Anyway, Since this is a blog and I’m torn about posting in blogs, I figure this is a good place to muse about such a topic. And maybe this newer blogging generation of tumblr will have some insights (so feel free to comment away).

The prose and cons of 1 blog for all, and posts lasting forever.

I like the idea of having one place to put all thoughts and having tags give distinct views as desired (photos, code, music, words are a couple). This way you give one link say, ‘http://blog.vincentcharles.com/tagged/tts’ and that is treated as the entire website. But it’s not it’s own site, one can easily look at everything. Is that good? Sometimes. I’d argue it’s good in some directions but not others. Example if one is looking at a personal site it would make sense to give links to more professional things like a resume etc. But if you want to give a prospective employer your resume it might not be a good idea for them to easily be able to see your photos of that party where you were puking all over the toilet at 4am. “I’m very responsible, dependable, reliable….burp.”

So a directed graph is good, maybe. [EDIT: this can be done by customizing my template: just show nothing on the homepage, only give out links to tags, and remove the ‘related tags’ section from each page’. There’s probably more to it than that but that’d be where I’d/I’ll start]

Now I’m losing patience so I’m moving on to the next topic. Should blog posts last forever? One beautiful thing of things like a wall or stream (on fb, twitter, g+ etc) is that the thoughts are very recent. Passing thoughts that can easily be read are very real to the person that posted them. When they fall off the wall, no one really reads them, they are still there tho…

So what I suggest is maybe having an expiration date on all blog posts by default. This post will stay on the live site for 3 weeks or while it’s one of the 10 most recent posts. As soon as post 11 comes along it will be bumped off into ‘private’ status. Not deleted because of course I want to keep my thoughts around for myself forever, but out of the public domain unless I explicitly say (at that time) actually this post is good for another 3 weeks or 10 posts) maybe you’ll say just leave it on forever. This post is timeless, for me.

These days we have so many pre-made platforms for doing stuff, sometimes entire new companies are founded on taking the same platform but framing it, or setting up their own set of arbitrary constraints that then give life to an entirely new form of expression and media.

Anyway, I’m toying with that idea. My hopes are that it will allow me to post more frequently because I know I won’t be held accountable for some random thoughts next year when I’ve completely moved on.

Ok off to actually make something do something, than describe some idealized ponderings of how things could be…. Thanks for listening and seriously, feel free to chime in.