I recently read Cory Doctorow’s post about using a blog as a personal Memex. I have been using this site in this way, but for a very limited scope. This has served a repository for technical information helpful to my job, and in some cases I have shared links to specific posts with coworkers. Having a sort of “public notebook” is useful for such things. What this site has not been is a commonplace book.
Doctorow’s analogy to a commonplace book got me thinking… I am interested in so many things but I don’t put my thoughts or discoveries anywhere but in my head or in poorly organized notes scattered around the digital and physical realms. In some cases I store things in git repositories, but these are things that have immediate utility, they are not ideas or the seeds of ideas.
I want to think about what to post here other than my own technical notes or little projects I want to share. My interests aren’t limited to technology, so why should my blog be? I have exactly zero readers, so it doesn’t matter much, but hey…I like to think about things. Perhaps I will take one of Doctorow’s habits and write about what I read.