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This time around, on January 24, 2007. I blogged a few years ago, but it was so obscure I don't even think GoogleCache has it.

http://kuipercliff.wordpress.com/2007/01/24/bruce-schneier/ It's not very good!

What is your motivation to continue blogging?

friends, networking, verification of information, recognition? My motivation to continue blogging is to explore both this medium and my reaction to it.

Daily life, friends, worldwide web... I'm a bit of a magpie, so inspiration - if you can call it that - comes from all sorts of places. At the moment, I live in Cairo, Egypt, and that provides some background to what I write, as do friends who point things in my direction. My main source of information, and what makes me think the most, is the material I find on the web, a large amount of which comes from other bloggers.

I'm mainly concerned with developing ideas about technology and our interaction with it, past, present and future. Despite being a child who grew up with, and was enthusiastic about, the first domestic computers, I've never really taken the trouble to find out what computing means. In a sense then, I've come to this very late - perhaps that gives me a different perspective to more experienced bloggers.

I've tried doing that many times and failed, but I would at least like people to understand that I try and question everything, rather than accept it wholesale. Three keywords perhaps? Technology, futurism, urbanism.

I suspect there's a fairly broad demographic, but I haven't been doing this long enough to get to know my readers as well as I'd like. Several bloggers I admire do read it, which is gratifying, and we do participate on each other's blogs. Not enough people comment on my blog to know who exactly is reading every day, so I'd encourage people to get involved if things interest them. The people I know of are definitely from the 'thinking' end of the sci-tech community though.

Communication, participation on different projects... For me, learning is the most important thing - even if I were to stop blogging, I'd be researching in my own way, every day. Complacency is tantamount to death, as far as I'm concerned. The flip-side to learning is the ability and willingness to pass that on to someone else, and I hope that, in some small way, I can do that. Obviously, one can learn from many different people and sources, and I like to find things of interest, and write about them from my own perspective.

Forgive me if I split this up into three categories  1. Communal blogs - Boing Boing , Danger Room , 2. Information Aesthetics Big name blogs - Warren Ellis ,
Beyond the Beyond , 3. BLDGBLOG Lesser lights - Neomeme , Shtetl-Optimized , Architectradure

That's an interesting question. I don't actively go looking for traffic - you won't be seeing me join any cash-for-links schemes, etc. Perhaps I should though - somehow, I don't fit the profile of any particular type of blog, so it can be difficult to get traffic. I usually get lumped in with the sci-tech crowd. I have no problem with that, as they supply me with much of the brain-food that keeps me interested and involved. I'm assiduous with my linking, as this is what the web relies upon, and I like to comment on interesting sites, so both generate a certain amount of reciprocal traffic. Having said all that, MyBlogLog continues to be an effective way of finding good blogs at early stages of development, and it provides me with some new readers. To be honest though, I'd rather have organic growth than transient traffic - regular readers are far more important than hit-counts.

I don't always know exactly what I want to say, but I enjoy saying it.

I'm not sure I have anything to say that other bloggers need to hear. There are so many talented people out there that I'm proud to be a tiny part of the broader community of intelligent, questioning folk that comprise the more intellectually dynamic sectors of the web.

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