Thoughts on production, alienation, and ideology
These are posts on blogging from the blog Base and Superstructure. Mostly these are meta-blogging posts, where I’ll be writing a bit about what it’s like to run a blog.
Today is the two-year anniversary of Base and Superstructure! How time flies! I started this blog in June 2018 mostly as a hobby and creative outlet. Well over 100 posts later, I’m sticking with it. On the first anniversary, I wrote a reflective FAQ. For the second anniversary, I’ll write a new FAQ using new data.
Enjoy!
Coronavirus – and COVID-19, the disease it causes – is obviously the elephant in the room for anything right now. Including blogging. As of today, we have 145 confirmed cases in Iowa. And they come predominantly from my own county – Johnson County, home of Iowa City.
That said, everyone’s fine in my household. And we aren’t seeing anything like New York or Seattle. I plan to continue writing and posting, and I’m working from home at my main job. Looking at the post schedule, I’ve got some upcoming stuff on: the film Black Panther, the transition from social democracy to socialism, and public housing.
How are all of you doing?
And it’s time for another end of the year review post! I started the year off with a bang and a New Year’s Resolution: Tenants union activism. My first post of the year was Why You Should Join a Tenants Union in 2019. I was working on a tenants union with our local Iowa City DSA chapter, and we successfully formed in July. Not a bad start to 2019.
How’d the rest of the blogging year go?
After more than a year at it, I think I’ve learned a few blogging lessons along the way. Maybe these will be useful to you, and maybe not. Thinking about starting your own blog? Or just interested in some of the process details? Perhaps both?
Whichever it is, here are four blogging lessons.
As I wrote earlier, traffic declines during the summer? Why? I don’t know. Maybe everyone’s on vacation or just enjoying the sun. I hope you had a good time, but that’s not the point.
The point is you might be wondering what you missed? Well, I’m here to let you know. Here are some summer highlights.
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