I recently learned that today, August 31st, is World Blog Day (not to be confused with International Blogger´s Day, which apparently happens on August 5th).
And I´m truly happy that there´s a set day to intentionally celebrate blogs, as one of my many identities, for years now, is that of a blogger, and it´s one I´m very proud of.
Coincidentally, earlier this week, I found this book by Pedro Mañas at home, and read it: The secret life of Rebecca Paradise. The protagonist makes up a whole new identity for herself through her blog (or her glob, as she calls it). I really liked this book, and it comes with a message, so I recommend it to all boys and girls.
El mes que viene se cumplirán veinte años de mi llegada a Irlanda (¡madre mía, veinte años!), y con ello la inauguración de mi primer blog, que también se llamaba Binarywords y que estaba escrito sólo en español. Por aquel entonces, bloguear estaba de moda, era algo relativamente nuevo, y varios de mis amigos escribían blogs también… A mí personalmente me vino fenomenal eso de reflexionar por escrito sobre mi día a día; me ayudó un montón en aquellos años de tanto cambio y crecimiento (¡y caos!), y me sigue ayudando inmensamente hoy en día, considero que es una herramienta fabulosa. Pero lo mejor fue que blogueando descubrí una vena creativa que ni sabía que tenía: podríamos decir que I found my voice.
Nowadays, the internet has evolved greatly, and content publication formats have changed, but the human need to express oneself and launch one´s ideas into the world is still the same, so new ways of blogging have been invented, as well as new platforms. The mainstream trend nowadays is microblogging, that is, short format, often using videos, reels, etc., to make the information more attractive and easier to digest. I must admit that I´m still old-fashioned when it comes to this: I prefer my blank page every week, to be able to write to my heart´s content, and then let the readers find what I wrote, be it because they were looking for the content or just stumbled upon it.
By the way, speaking about platforms, I´m currently trying to integrate this WordPress blog with my Substack account, so that articles get published automatically, as they already do in LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. I´m afraid the integration is going to have to be manual, but still, I think I´ll be able to publish through that medium as well. I´ll keep you posted.
In the meantime, if you feel like exploring more than two hundred articles already written here in the glob, the easiest way is heading to the archive, you´ll find them all there. Thanks for reading me!