Amongst other things, Nic is a writer and director for theatre and film...
... so doesn't have a lot of time to update this site.
Blog is a contraction of ‘web log’. The activity and term came into popular use in the late 90’s and then into the public and political eye by 2000.
The common understanding of a blog, particularly when the majority of them are managed and served by popular open-source blogging software and services, is that it is an oft-updated journal, indexed as short initial extracts which each link to a longer entry of between 250 and 500 words.
Whilst that may be so, the actual activity of posting content online for public consumption dates way back into the early 90’s and even before. Additionally, I’ve been using networked computers connected to the wider ‘internet’ since the mid-80’s. For my final Computer Science project at A-Level I programmed a networked bulletin board system which provided its users with the ability to participate in online discussions.
I have form.
I point all this out so that you are aware of my understanding of the starchy origins of the internet, from before it became the world wide web and right up to these new, modern internets which are not a truck but more like a series of tubes. I need this to be clear in order for you to accept with an open heart my answer to your question: ‘Why are there so few updates to your blog? And why are they so LONG?’
Here’s how I see it:
Tiny, bite-sized updates, like an aperitif at the start of a daring meal in a curious restaurant somewhere in the hills, or a thimbleful of ice-cold vodka just to whet the palette on a picnic by a lake in August:
Twitter - Once every few days.
Semi-regular, rolling updates containing terse musings about what I’m up to, with whom and where you might find out more, delivered with a sort of head-hanging embarrassment about self-promotion:
Recently - Once every month or so.
Huge, in-depth and probably polemic analyses of eye-wateringly specific moments in dangerously obscure projects which are partly my own aides-memoires:
Blog - Once in a while.
The rest of the time I'm writing.
I could put some more fiction in here, I suppose, but that would feel weird.
Now I’ve had way more than my 250 words.
