Motion

(Long story short: this blog is moving to http://iansinke.tumblr.com/. For more information, read onward.)

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past two years of writing for the web, it is this: a blog can not be static and remain popular. It does not matter how much good content you have on your blog if you do not have new content as well. The appeal of a blog, you see, is paradoxical: readers must know what to expect from your blog, and yet get something new and unexpected each and every time they visit.

For the last nearly two years, I’ve been using faithfully overlooking WordPress’s faults. Recently, though, I discovered Tumblr. The premise of Tumblr is simple: people don’t have time to write long blog posts. Tumblr allows you to write posts that are simply links or quotes or photos. I hope that using Tumblr will allow me to blog more frequently and to share with you, dear reader, my thoughts as well as my interests. I hope you’ll join me.

Recommended Listening #6

For no particular reason except that I was listening to the radio late last night and I realized how much I liked this piece of music, this week’s recommendation is the Romance from the Gadfly Suite by Dmitri Shostakovitch. (No links today; I’m feeling lazy.) A wonderful piece of music; I heard the Perlman recording. (I would give his first name, except you already know it and I have no clue how to spell it. I mean, seriously: Itzach? Itzock? Itsach? Itsock?)

In mildly related news, I took my Grade 2 Theory exam today. I’m almost sure I got every answer right, but I’m still awaiting with decided trepidation the release of my marks. If I get anything worse than 90, my teacher will not be pleased. (Last time I got an 89; it was the worst grade any student of hers had ever got on a theory exam. She’s somewhat of a perfectionist, as you can well imagine.)

How I Read Blogs

When I started reading blogs, I only read one blog, then two. I made a folder in my bookmarks menu, and whenever I wanted to read something, I would go to the blog and see if there was anything new. This works just fine when you only have two blogs to read. When you have 35 blogs, though, it doesn’t work at all. That’s why RSS is so important. (If you don’t know what RSS is, get a life. No, check that. If you don’t know what RSS is, read the Wikipedia definition. And then come back here and keep reading.)