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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!