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Confessions of a Blog Reader: or, the Baroque Ways of a Slow Adopter

Once upon a time, a time which seems now to be long ago, I did not know what a blog was.  Then someone recommended I read a blog called “HoCo Hayduke.”  I had no idea how to find this blog, but I did not ask for help. I didn’t want to admit my incompetence. When I finally did find it, I made sure that I would never lose it by giving it a really nifty thing called a bookmark.  It would always be there; I would never lose it.

Ahem.

Right around the time I became an avid reader, the blog slowed, and faltered, and, eventually ceased.  I don’t know how I was able to put a curse on it, but apparently I did. (And he said: “The problem with women is that they take everything personally.”  And she said: “I do not!”)  So, now I had a bookmark to Nowhere. 

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But then I noticed there were some other things on the left margin, and they were—gasp!—other blogs!  So, I clicked on them.  Some of them I liked, and some I most certainly did not. But, I knew how to get there: I clicked the bookmark, went to “Hayduke,” and then clicked on the left margin. 

Strangely enough, some of those blogs slowed. And faltered, and ceased. (I’m the kiss of death, I tell you!)  But, I still had Wordbones.  He was at the top of the list and he kept on posting.

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And then I noticed something in the lower right margin of his blog. And they were other blogs!  So I could click on my bookmark, go to “Hayduke,” click on “Tale of Two Cities,”and then click on those links.  And I never lost anything! 

It took a long time before I realized that there might be another way to do this. In the meantime, I have been artificially keeping steady visitation counts to a deceased blog. And I have grieved the disassembly of that Ikea desk a thousand times…

Change can be difficult for slow or insecure adopters.  I admit this at the outset because, in the future, I may be talking a lot about change and how we deal with it. I do not point a finger outward; I include myself in the struggle.  In the meantime, my daughter told me that I don’t have to have bookmarks at all anymore if I use Google Chrome. 

Are you serious?  I just got used to Mozilla Firefox!

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