David Emery Online6
22 October 2005
On Tuesday it was the 6 month anniversary of this blog. So far I’ve written 16,355 words, which is not bad going, I think. I’ve also had 39 comments posted so far, which isn’t really a huge amount, but I’m not doing this for the fame – thanks to all that commented!
I’m pretty chuffed that I’m still going with this blog; the amount of blogs you come across via google that have been abandoned is very high and when I set out I really hoped mine wouldn’t be one of them. I seem to have settled into posting about once a week, which seems about right – While I started out doing the “post on everything you read about” thing, I’ve since decided that there’s no point repeating what everyone else is saying unless I’ve got something to add to the topic. For example, when Apple released the new iPods I think I read about them on pretty much every blog I read, without any of them saying much more then “oh, Apple released new iPods that play videos. I like them/don’t like them/am ambivalent”.
I’ve really enjoyed being able to write in a bit more depth about the stuff I find interesting, and it’s nice to get some feedback about some of it (witness the back and forth in the comments with the ceo of OverTheEdge in my Interface Missteps ).
Returning to the topic of that post briefly, it’s interesting to see the new “Pro” interface Apple have rolled out with Aperture which looks great, and seems to be a merging of the old Pro look (which was looking old) and the new Unified look. OverTheEdge should really take their pointers from Aperture from a point of both aesthetics and workflow functionality. Also, to stray off to the topic of yet another post shame on Apple for making the Aperture mini site require a 1024px wide browser (it does look nice though)...
Here’s to another 6 months!