[WRITING] On the transience of blogging, or, is that all there is?

[rfmcdonald]

A well-written post  by Jim Belshaw that he posted to his blog Personal Reflections yesterday really made me think. There, he considered a post of his written in 2007. He remembered where he was and what he was doing at the time; he recognized that the sad situation he had described then had not changed in any of its particulars, sadly; he noted that changing HTML standards and link rot required a revision.

WordPress lets me know, whenever I have successfully uploaded a post, how many I have made in total. Lately it has been hovering around 16 thousand or so, stretching back to the very first posts I made back in 2002 on my LiveJournal. How much of what I wrote has lasted in anything like as good a form as Belshaw's post? What have these posts led to, if anything? What might they yet lead to? Or, what can they not become, not now and perhaps not ever?

I am wondering, thinking. I admit to being afraid as to what I might conclude.