A year ago, I decided to take a lengthy hiatus from blogging. Several reasons lay behind this decision - e.g. the drudgery of dealing with spammers, the decline in meaningful feedback caused by implementing countermeasures against trolls, etc. - but the primary motivation for taking a break from writing was something else altogether: a desire to re-evaluate what exactly I should be writing, and why I should be writing it.
The year-long break has provided plenty of time to reflect on these matters, and the conclusion I've come to is one I think I'll be able to live with in the long term. Formerly I'd written with one eye on general accessibility, but from now on what I write will be for the satisfaction of one person alone: myself. This has never been a widely-read blog even at its most popular, and I lack the necessary inclination required to try to make it one, so the only way the blog's continued existence can be justified is that I should be able to feel some satisfaction about the quality of what I've written, whether or not it has an audience. I will no longer make any concessions whatsoever to a broader readership, and if that means my obscure vocabulary and abstruse subject matter drive my already minuscule audience to zero, so be it.
I am presuming that twitter is out of the question then? No 140 character aphorisms for you?
Posted by: Ipvideo | May 17, 2011 at 06:51 PM
Welcome back! I don't follow too many blogs and I missed yours. I especially liked the diversity of your posts and the unconventional views expressed.
Posted by: Lior Wolf | May 17, 2011 at 07:28 PM
Welcome back!
Posted by: Eusebio Waweru | May 18, 2011 at 08:36 AM
Welcome back Abiola.
Posted by: Jubril | May 23, 2011 at 03:42 AM
Welcome back, Abiola.
What makes your blog interesting is your interests and your voice. So you absolutely should write for yourself. That's what your readers like and enjoy!
Posted by: bold f | June 24, 2011 at 02:49 PM