back to blogging? or something else Subtacky? or settle for Spacebook? or..........

photo credit and related article 

There have been rumblings (I can never use that word anymore without a link to Neil Young) about a renaissance/kickstart of blogging, especially those of us who you used to resonate with the emerging church (whatever that was or is) or this with  church and culture emphases...

                                Is it too late? 

How I miss those blogs who disappeared (Next Reformation,  Denver in Translation, anybody?) . Check all the links on my right-hand column, and my "Lotsa Lynx" graveyard,  to see when  the dozens (OK, hundreds?)  of blogs I once clung to , were most recently updated.

Some have migrated to Substack (do check out Cathleen Falsani: This Numinous World, for starters.

One of the pioneers , Andrew Jones (Tall Skinny Kiwi) posted on Facebook last year:

"I believe that Substack is bringing back blogging. Not that blogging is dead, but it’s offering a place where blogging can co-exist with social media in a more seamless way." (HUNTER BURGTORF, 'Why Substack is the new blog)

I don't plan on joining Substack but I see that a lot of my friends are using it as a place for long-form text-based blogging. I would like to hear your thoughts. Many of you just feel the need to write, to get those thoughts out of your head and into the internet, to "publish glad tidings" daily. I can relate. Sometimes I post a thought on Facebook and then make it invisible. Sometimes, we just need to write for ourselves.

I used to blog many times a day on blogger but moved to Typepad because they had an integrated comment system and the graphics were cleaner. I should have stayed with the same platform.

I moved to Wordpress later but, like many bloggers, was inundated by anonymous troll commenters and decided to use Facebook as a safer place to share my thoughts.

I have not blogged for a long time but am now thinking that my site should be a home-base, a dashboard for all my social media streams, especially as I look at Twitch as a place where I can stream my thoughts in real time and enjoy conversation in the comments with the help of AI to moderate and enhance.

Any thoughts? Link 

Heck, as you can see below, once I click to publish this post, 2025 will be my most active year here....since 2017.

Can we party like it's 1999 again?

No, but I will post this anyway...and it will show up on Facebook, where interaction happens.

Though feel free to blow me away and comment below..

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