blog – Wenjie's Ramblings

Read an article at TechCrunch today, regarding the rise of microblogging and the demise of blogging.

but look at anyone’s Twitter account and it’s the same story – 140 characters simply doesn’t give enough depth or breadth to commit events, memories or feelings to the permanent record.

How true.

Blogging forces me to revisit events, no matter how painful they are, and put them in words, in a logical manner. It helps me to put things into perspective, and also offer an outlet for me to vent. Twitter is more like IRC to me, than blogging.

Of course, I blog much, much less than I twit. Blogging is emotional tiring when the topic is about something close to heart, something painful. It is never easy to revisit painful moments twice, and mostly, I would rather just pretend those incidents never happen. As such, I would prefer not to blog about painful, emotional draining incidents. Also, a one liner sometimes has more impact than a full length blog post.

Thinking aloud, perhaps I should blog less about personal issues, that might increase my blogging frequency. Besides, I can never know who is reading my blog.

I was bored and decided to check out the very first blog entry.

Before this site, I was blogging from Blogspot. Before that was Deadjournal. And the starting point of it all was in Diaryland. Surprisingly, all my old blogs are still there. I had managed to import all the entries from Blogspot into here, the Deadjournal entries will take some time since they can only export my blog entries month by month, and I think the Diaryland entries are impossible to import here since I do not remember my login ID and password anymore.

Incidentally, my first ever blog entry on the Internet happened on the 29th June 2001. It has been a on-off affair where I find myself not blogging for months. But at least I have a date now to remind myself when I started blogging.

And I wonder if I ever able to find the exact date I got onto the Internet, I believe it is in the year 1992 when I was using the VAX server in the university for the first time.