Will you pick a blog and stick with it already?

Just last week I started a blog at Yahoo! 360 and already I’ve decided it isn’t what I’m looking for. I also have a blog attached to my Myspace profile page which I posted to a few times and let die. Why do I think this blog will be any different?

First of all, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about the stories and information that exists only in people’s heads. I know there is information and stories about various people in my family that has been lost forever. Those that experienced those things are no longer in this world. I guess it’s just middle age creeping up on me, but I’ve started to ponder my own legacy.

What will my children know of my life and the experiences that I had? At this point, nothing. None of it is written down or recorded anywhere. Heck, I think I’m beginning to forget much of it myself. Of course, I’m too much of a geek to sit down and write it all out in an actual journal. On the other hand, what happens to this if I spend hundreds of hours recording my thoughts with the intent to preserve it? Will this blog be here in 20 years?

It’s too late to ponder those tough questions. I guess if I’m smart I’ll find a way to archive these posts to some sort of permanent medium. The only problem is, who’s going to have a way to read that medium. I dare you to find a zip drive to restore some files I backed up to a zip disk 10 years ago. I dare you.

Tags: blogging, Yahoo! 360, WordPress, stories, legacy