22nd Anniversary of IT

January 22, 2024 is the 22nd anniversary of this blog, originally focussed on instructionl technology in Humanities, because I was the IT coordinator for the Humanities at UCLA. I started blogging on Blogger, posting to my extant domain and Web site, then moved to the now defunct Radio Userland, then to MoveableType , then to self-hosted WordPress, where I’ve been since February of 2008.

IT is actually my second blog; my first, started a day earlier on January 21, 2002, was Scéla, an addition (and replacement) for the site I created with BBEDit Lite and hosted on America Online’s Homestead in 1997. That initial site had a What’s New section on the top page.

While I never stopped blogging once I started, I left Twitter and Facebook c. 2020, and abandoned Goodreads for my personal use some years earlier. As social media services and sites like Twitter and Facebook have enshittified, independent Web posting, micro blogging, RSS and Mastodon have rejuvenated the Web. There’s a new interest in personal sites, particularly digital gardens.