Clean Slate
Over the past few years I’ve wiped and restarted my blog many, many times. In the process I’ve managed to piss off more than a few people trying to find old content. Sorry.
In the past my blog was always very Flash and ActionScript oriented. This wasn’t a bad thing – it was, and still is, a major passion of mine. However at this point there a lot of Flash bloggers and many of them are simply smarter, more articulate, and more inclined to actually blog. I don’t intend to not write about Flash, but it won’t be the focus of my writing.
Instead, the focus will be the “nom de ‘net” I chose for this site when I bought the domain back in 2002. I came up with waxpraxis by smooshing together wax to denote increasing (as in the waxing moon) and praxis to denote practice, learning, and action. I simply want to write more because I feel that I do my best learning when I am actually teaching.
Back in the early days of Flash I would literally learn a feature or technique and immediately make a forum post or write a tutorial about it. Somehow over the last few years I’ve lost that habit, but now, for both selfish and altruistic reasons, I want to start it back up.
I don’t want to set any posting goals – I’m hoping sheer habit will take care of that. Instead, my major goal is to keep this blogs content, in it’s whole form, for the next 5 years. Hopefully, this will be fun!
I feel yah, and I’ve seen this in myself [though I haven't wiped anything clean]. My first run of posting experiments and code online was when i was learning this web stuff. The next wave was writing when I was finding myself repeating what I was saying in multiple venues anyway or working through ways to explain technology to others. Then I was busy “doing” and didn’t have much that I thought was new or that needed to be gotten down on ‘paper’ or that other bloggers were doing much better jobs at linking or talking about current events so things went silent.
Somewhere over time I realized that I was perfectly ok with my site reflecting these waves and being the kind of outlet I needed it to be at the moment. Now between learning photography, trying to keep up with html5 & css3 and starting a small teaching gig I’ve been dwelling on things that might be worth sharing and that’s what’s brought things on the site back to “life” even if its a little bit skitzo and irregular at times.
Looking forward to seeing you writing about what’s interesting to you and driving you into the open again.
February 12th, 2010 at 9:48 am