{"id":82,"date":"2008-04-02T00:08:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T04:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/2008\/04\/02\/blog-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T00:08:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T04:08:22","slug":"blog-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/2008\/04\/02\/blog-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/12509341@N03\/2382098968\/\" title=\"Siena cathedral 40470019 by misacsson, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3296\/2382098968_53c4f948b1.jpg\" alt=\"Siena cathedral 40470019\" height=\"332\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The Cathedeal in Siena, Tuscany, my photo. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you are a subscriber to this blog, you might have noticed that I have been posting less frequently lately.  This was not only because I was on  a holiday trip in Tuscany, Italy, for two weeks. It was also because I have been thinking about what direction to take with the blog.<\/p>\n<p>8 months after starting this adventure, with the help of my young friend and webmestre Kim Gjerstad, I was feeling both overextended and a little confused. <strong>Publishing twice weekly in both English and French was taking too much time, and I found myself tempted to do too much<\/strong>: review significant new docs,  do my best help stir up debate about different issues, report on my own work &#8211; all this while maintaining good picture quality and occasionally inserting videos. Some of this activity was the result of good feedback: people seem to appreciate the blog and urge me to cover things. But it was getting out of hand and starting to get in the way of my work.<\/p>\n<p>So I took advantage of my holidays to think about where to go with the blog. By serendipity I picked up a special issue of the progressive French paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/\" title=\"paper's web site\">Lib\u00e9ration<\/a> on fiction writers. There was an article where several writers talked about how they use their blogs &#8211; mainly as &#8216;carnets de bord,&#8217;  a sort of log book, a scrap book on the side, a place to talk about things that don&#8217;t necessarily fit into whatever they happen to be writing but need to be said. This brought me back to my original intent with the blog: to share my own experiences and thoughts on documentary filmmaking. <strong>So from now on I will write mainly about films I see and people in meet in the course of my regular activities,  and of course about my own work<\/strong>.  On occasion I will continue to use the blog as a tool to satisfy my own curiosity &#8211; I have enjoyed doing that and it has led to some interesting cyber-encounters.<\/p>\n<p>I welcome your comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cathedeal in Siena, Tuscany, my photo. If you are a subscriber to this blog, you might have noticed that I have been posting less frequently lately. This was not only because I was on a holiday trip in Tuscany, Italy, for two weeks. It was also because I have been thinking about what direction &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/2008\/04\/02\/blog-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}