The written based portions of my content ecosystem, are probably some of my most prolific. I have over 320 blog posts on my main site, however many here on LinkedIn, and a handful more scattered across the internet.
I've been blogging for ten years, and although I was off and on for many of them... I never really stopped writing. Even in the time spent away from consistent posting, there was a ton of planning. I planned out multiple YEARS worth of my #PolyInContent series (formerly known as #OmniContent). Along with a ton of isolated content pieces too, and I would eventually merge them all into one huge content pipeline database.
From the ages of old where Wordpress was king, to the peak of Medium, and even now using a newer CMS (Content Management System). I used wordpress.com as my original blog, and I barely could make heads or tails with it. Let alone do ANY customization back then, as the free/cheap plans didn't offer much (this was well before the time of Gutenberg).
Given the lack of control of how things looked I went to what I would consider to be the OPPOSITE of the spectrum, that being wix.com!
It was more or less a good experience, but expensive and egregiously slow. From there I jumped back on the Wordpress bandwagon, but this time with .org instead. I was able to do a hell of a lot more then, and I played around with various paid themes too. I quite literally searched through the entire plugin library of the wordpress directory, as I was very curious of what unique things it offered. I came across BeyondWords way back in their early days as speechkit, and it was something I only found because of that search.
Side note, I even played around with Blockchain blogging platforms like airtext.xyz, which was interesting.
A Ghost of a Former Self
In this new day and age, there are far better coding technologies than the ones we commonly use. For example a huge number of websites are made in wordpress, but the problem is that it is written in the archaic PHP. An issue that plagues most of those websites in speed, as well as operations. I could never get my page speed up to save my life, and thus I switched over to Ghost CMS (build on node.js).
Why am I mentioning this? I've already talked about this story a handful of times, but the reality is that my life has been centered around content for as long as I can remember at this point. Blogging is a major form of my expression, and when I had a very rocky situationship this past Summer. The only way I could think of to process it internally was through writing (even meditation didn't help at that point).
This is ^ all of me explaining the past, and below I can focus on the future.
Here is a link to a post I wrote where my wordpress site came back like a zombie. :O
https://polyinnovator.space/the-attack-of-the-ghost-site/
Blogging is NOT Dead
I can't believe people have the audacity to claim that blogging is dead, or it is too late to start podcasting, or anything of that nature. Creating content is part of the human experience, whether it is a physical piece of art, or even something of the digital variety. The sooner you start the better sure, but it isn't too late.
In fact I have so much planned for my OmniBlog, and my personal digital journal the Fireside Codex; That I may die before I finish all of the ideas!
Even my PolyInContent series, which is based around repurposing from on pillar type to another (video, audio, written, but in any order), starts off as a blog post. I mentioned that it can be in any order, but most people start with video. I prefer the written format to get all my thoughts down, then I can distill via video. The point is that every one of those pieces in that series starts out as a blog.
In the future I will have an even better consistency, but it seems like each year I'm getting better and better. I basically post at least once a week on my site, and I am aiming for a daily LinkedIn Pulse article too. Hence why I am writing this post today.
Any post written on here may be any subject, but what matters is that I am writing daily. Also that I am able to build up my connections with people here, so please leave a comment so we can chat. :D