A Clean Break
For the past few years, MikeFrizzell.net has been a geek/tech blog, mainly links and reposts of other stuff on the web. It was once hosted at Tumblr, then I moved it over to Posterous, and finally I’ve moved back to Tumblr, all in a vain attempt to find an audience. As of today, I no longer care about that.
What I was doing before, and what about a million other people do, was to build a blog on the backs of those who actually create content. It might work for some people, but I now see it as a house of cards. You might be able to get a following, get some people to retweet your links, and even make some ad money, but if you aren’t creating anything, what’s the purpose of having a blog? (Not that I have anything against so-called “web scrapbooks”, I just don’t see the point anymore.)
So, as of today, as of this post, 90% of what you’ll see on this blog will be original. I can’t say everything will be content I have created, because there might be a video or image that’s germane to what I’m saying, but most of it will be. You won’t see links with 500 word excerpts, reposts of stupid top 10 lists, or endless infographics. There are enough blogs like that and I no longer wish to contribute to the linkbait ecosystem.
What you will see here is an extension of my passion: sci-fi and fantasy. I’m not entirely sure how it’s going to pan out, but it’s going to be original and (hopefully) not completely stupid.
