The Golden Age of Blogging
Rosie
6/30/20262 min read
It’s hard to believe that there was a time in my life where I blogged at least five days a week. Some weeks I’d churn out seven blog posts. I don’t know how I had the time or brain space for that, but such is being in your early twenties I suppose. Though I’ve no desire to return to that kind of “productivity”, I do miss the golden age of blogging.
Everyone had their own website. We weren’t all hosted on SubStack, which feels so clinical and void of personality to me. We had our own blogs that we maintained; with fun, personalised header graphics, colourful sidebars containing our favourite photos and facts about our selves, and a place that showed off who we were. You could delve into someone’s thoughts on a topic without finding yourself on autopilot, scrolling down to the next thing and next creator after just six seconds.
I still have a few old blogging friends that I keep up with, and I wonder what happened to some of the others.
All of this is to say that I keep complaining about missing that era of blogging, and being more intentional about the content I both create and consume. It’s about time I did something about it. I once had a therapist tell me that I can’t control what is out there in the world (I was in a social media fuelled state of anxiety) but I can control what I put out there. I’m reviving my blogging days and this will be a space where I write about nature and life in North East Scotland.
To bring back the real feel of mid 2010s blogging, I have to share some things with you that I’ve been enjoying lately:
Music: my playlists at the minute are very of my childhood. Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Watching: we watched David Attenborough’s The Hunt this week. The polar bear hunting along the sea cliffs is one of the coolest pieces of wildlife footage I’ve ever seen (though seeing a bear eating seabird chicks is hard for me - I love both bears and seabirds). My cat also loved watching this documentary. We’ve never seen him so into a TV show before.
Doing: taking film photos along Aberdeen’s coast with a warm wind behind me (it’s very rare we get a warm wind, it’s usually a chill you to your bones cold wind.)