The next day's post
It really is fascinating how the human mind works in the age of the "attention economy".
Yesterday's post about Reddit and its new barrier to accessing content, forcing us to create accounts if we want to enter that space using the old template, brought a fair bit of traffic to the blog considering its average audience. So accustomed as I am to writing into the void, I suddenly found myself under far more of a spotlight than I expected in my short journey as a blog writer on Bear.
Once again, from the heights of my cynicism, I could simply stand there and say "nice, turns out there is an audience for my scribblings!". And yet not even I and my supposedly iron mind can resist the dynamics imposed upon us by years of intense social media consumption.
I admit that I spent quite a while thinking about what the following day's post could be after such a tiny event compared with so many other things that have happened and continue to happen in my life, but which, truth be told, gave my ego a bit of a boost. Do I keep talking about the internet? Do I change the subject entirely and return to my usual socio-political-economic musings about the burg where I live, and its insignificance before the rest of the globe? Why not talk about something mundane, like my car and the process of getting it?
I almost forgot that this is a space for trivialities. A (semi-)blank canvas where I can write whatever comes to mind.
I also have to admit that yesterday's boost inspired me to brainstorm a few broad themes I can explore as part of my scribbling flow. Nothing structured, because, once again, this is a space for trivialities, no matter how serious the subject may be.
So I ask forgiveness from those who thought this was, or would become, a place for reciting odes to the old internet and to the not-so-good things we have been losing over the years thanks to the corporate interests of the so-called "cloud fiefs" described by Varoufakis. Quite the opposite.