"On Returning To Blogging Here After A Long Time Away" by Sam Smoot

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:45:15 -0700

I anxiously await thine updates. :-)

So much to ask… so not the place to ask it. ;-)

I’m assuming you’re at NYTD?

On Returning To Blogging Here After A Long Time Away

harrisj@nimblecode.com (Jacob Harris) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:30:00 -0700

In which the author continues to use a title formulation—one that seems right out of the 19th century, but these days denotes a certain overweening preciousness well suited to be published by McSweeney’s—to explain his long absence from-,

Ah, screw it. The question on the minds of my remaining readers (all 10 of you) might be where the heck have I been (sorry for the sad invective, but I’ve been trying to cut down on my cursing for reasons that should soon be clear) and why am I blogging again now? 250-some days is a long day to be quiet, and it’s not like the blog was that awesome before it went on hiatus. What happened?

Good question. To be honest, the main reason is I’ve been rather busy. For starters, I have still been blogging all this while, but for the New York Times’ open source initiatives at our blog Open. The main reason though is that I am a proud father of the most amazing kid in thr world. It’s not that the baby keeps me from blogging, rather it’s just that blogging doesn’t really compare at all to spending time with him (my personal coding productivity has similarly been very low). Especially since, to be bluntly honest, the writing on this blog had become as boring as listening to a Garrison Keillor marathon. Better not to do it.

So, why restart now? Because it just feels fun again. And because I actually feel like it might also be interesting as well to continue my musings on the future of newspapers (and my experiences and experiments along those lines) in a forum that is not as official and fraught with consequences for misplayed snark like the official New York Times blog would be.

This is not to say I will be dishing dirt and spilling secrets. I like my job enough to not want to lose it, and that’s not really my style. But I think it would be fun (at least to me) to post my occasional rants with perspective from inside the New York Times, and perhaps, if I’m lucky, fun for some random people on the Interwebs to read it. Sound like a plan?

If worse comes to worse, I’ll just stop again. It wouldn’t be the first time…

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"On Returning To Blogging Here After A Long Time Away" by Sam Smoot

On Returning To Blogging Here After A Long Time Away