On Blogging

So I'm a bit newer to blogging as a way of publishing, and I heard different things about it: 1) that it is like having a public diary, 2) or it's an alternative to a website. I find it to be a little more more of the latter from the blogging I've wanted to do and from the blogs I've read.

Most of the popular, and even award winning blogs seem to center on a few central themes: 1) technical stuff, new, cool and sometimes involving media, 2) gossip, 3) politics (mainly with)\(sometimes without) gossip. Number one is to be expected given the audience for blogging and the types who are interested as blogging as a way of communication, 2) is predictable given human nature and what is popular in all other forms of media, and 3) goes along those lines too. So even in the blogosphere the social center of mass seems to cluster itself, creating dominant media outlets (in this case, just via another technical media.

What is different about blogs is the ability to have many other niche publications, such as blogs by moms in a region ("Silicon Valley Mom's Blog" is one example I read) which brings a more personalize aspect, like the diary of MANY people for all to read. It's much more democratizing and liberating for blogs to be a platform of personalized (even politically personalized) publishing.

Well that's about it for now. One wonders, how do you find your audience\niche as a blogger?

Books Begin Early

Not necessarily early in the day, but early in life. One of the best ways to spend quiet time with someone is to read them a favorite book. It’s a great way to learn new things, and to appreciate learning through reading. I've even read out loud to myself in order to help learn a foreign language (German.)

With my young son, I try to read him at least one or two books per day. You can listen to his favorite story these days:

Happy Chameleon Day

So we don't own a cat, or an orchid now, but our chameleon did take a walk on our neighbor's orchid.

He was the subject of a short video I took and converted into a flip book, using Adobe Premiere Elements, and Adobe Photoshop. In later posts, I plan on describing how you can create a flip book too.

Welcome

Glad you were able to visit my new blog dedicated to my favorite creative endeavor: book arts.

So you ask, what exactly is "book arts"? It's the subject of debate even among dedicated book artists; scholarly articles are written on the nature of "bookness" and "what is a book."

The best way I describe it is to say that book arts is the discipline combining all arts and crafts required to build traditional and modern-day books. Everything from the monks of old and how they created what now precedes modern typography to web design technologies that people now use to publish about, and visual describe the world.

So I guess in a sense, a blog, is a the latest generation of many thousand of years of technologies and innovations used to illuminate and illustrate life as we know it.