Base Technology: Three-month status of a former blogger

It's been three months since I ceased blogging back on August 18, 2005. I figured that it would be good to check in at the three-month interval just to report anything of significance.

Although I no longer regularly monitor any blogs, there have been more than a few occasions where I have read some blog posts. Usually that happens because I search using Google and a blog page happens to pop up in the search results, and on occasion I have visited a few blogs, but I no longer run and feed readers.

On two occasions I have emailed comments to some columnists based on reading non-blog material and my comments have ended up on their blogs. In one case I commented directly on their blog at their request. In the other case they asked permission to post my comments.

I had left my blogs wide open for comments, including anonymous comments, but after getting a fair amount of spam comments I recently enabled a new Blogger feature which requires the commenter to read and enter text from a graphic image. That eliminated all the automated spam.

There have been a number of occasions when I felt like blogging something, but not so much that it was worth breaking my pledge of blog celibacy. Mostly I just post my own material directly on my main web sites, but unfortunately people won't get any automatic alert of changes as they would get with a web feed subscription to my blog web feeds.

I have checked in on just a few blogs over the past three months, just to see if I was missing much, but nothing has seemed compelling enough to draw me back into the fray. I did leave a comment or two, but for the most part have not seen any significant impetus to reverse my decision of three months ago.

I'll probably check back in another three months from now.

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