saw this tweet from @DaveWiner today:

When people tell me they loved Radio UserLand, that means, to me, that they are pioneers, early adopters. Very likely Natural-Born Bloggers.

— Dave Winer ☮ (@davewiner) September 7, 2014

 

When I began blogging in June 2012 (and yeah,  I was using Radio Userland)  ,  I quickly made a pretty good splash in the “Theological Bloggers” category (it was early in blogging’s history,  at least for the theological category).  It was the Blog and the “RSS Feed”,  something which is now widely known to be pioneered and largely INVENTED by Dave Winer, that launched me into what has grown into the Social Media space.   The deluge of tools and services that grew up in the second half of the 1st decade of the 2000’s has distracted many who were devoted bloggers from the longer form.  Myself,  unfortunately,  has been one who has seen their blog output sharply curtailed, seemingly because of the emphasis on the convenience and “spontaneity” afforded by Twitter and Facebook.   My “Social Media” presence and following I have experienced since I began posting to Twitter and Facebook (and also Google Plus and Tumblr)  has dwindled , especially in its representative volume in the Social Mediasphere.

Regradless of my sense of relative “stature” ,  I have let my blogging decrease,  and I am often finding myself wincing at that thought,  and then moving on from those frequent moments back into the same routines which have crowded out the time formerly devoted to blogging,  and begun to endear me to the “Twitter-size” quick bits and slightly larger Facebook posts and so the blog posts decrease.   I have added Twitter tools to the WordPress installation,  but I think I need to find a way to configure that which will help me leverage Tweeting and also Facebok posts that will encourage me to expound from Tweets into providing more of that needed elaboration.