On 40 Trips Around the Sun and Blogging All About It...
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Today marks the beginning of my 40th trip around the Sun and as such, it seems like an appropriate time to ponder the state of the blog. Yeah...I'm a blogger. And have been so for more than 14 years. I have the archives to prove it ! I started with the JoinCross Blog and then RhodesSchool and have been settled in here at "Why I oughta" on my personal domain for more than a decade. And now with more than 3,000 individual posts, I've left behind quite a bit of digital and personal brick-a-brack over the years - especially with a handful of recent one-post-per-day-every-day years. I'm on track to keep up the one-post-per-day for 2018, too. Like a lot of you guys, I've read a bunch of the 'is blogging dead' pieces like this one, but a few have stuck out and I feel are worth sharing to talk about the place of a personal blog in the face of publishing platforms like Facebook and Twitter and Instagram what-have-you. Now...I'm on Facebook a...