You might think so, but the reality is that I have been doing the non-web version of blogging for a long time and, indeed, I’ve even had a real blog for a few years on our company intranet – so with a limited (very limited??) readership. Since originally writing this post I have added some posts which predate it – either in describing some event or because I wrote it “back then”. <\/p>\n
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The general idea of blogging is, I guess, not really new – it is merely taking the ideas of the likes of Pepys and Boswell and bringing them into the 21st Century.\u00a0 Everyone who has ever written a diary has done exactly the same as today’s bloggers are doing.\u00a0 I suspect that there have been as many, if not more, types of diary as there are types of blog.<\/p>\n
I actually think that blogging\/Web 2.0 technology is extremely important to our society and I am in many ways disappointed that it has taken me so long to get this far and actually push something online.<\/p>\n
Having said that, the big problem with the technology is what is tagged\u00a0information overload<\/strong>\u00a0and, yes, every new blogger adds to that problem! Of course, there is the question of whether it is of any interest to anyone – well I am not the judge of that and I shall be concentrating on educating myself, so really if anyone else gains something as well – then it is a bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You might think so, but the reality is that I have been doing the non-web version of blogging for a long time and, indeed, I’ve even had a real blog for a few years on our company intranet – so with a limited (very limited??) readership. Since originally writing this post I have added some … Continue reading “A Blogging Newbie”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[96,115,116],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ignorance","tag-learning","tag-web","tag-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}