Reflecting on 6 months of regular blogging
I forgot to celebrate the 6 month celebration of this blog. 6 months of regular blogging…
This blog really evolved my thinking and made my search for information more specific. My ideas on some areas really got some space to evolve.
At the moment I have found two three main topics to blog on: Design, the us ‘religion’ and the new learning. They seem to define some of the main topics behind my thinking. Design is something that is at the core of what I do. I design and manage multimedia products and have learned that media is broader than I originally envisioned. Design and media is universal in our human world.
On the other front I have a vision on how the world should look like. This vision formed into something concrete on this blog but is widely influenced by the new learning of my current education and its focus on the student community. The vision became the us religion and it is named from this post on the us movement. (more on that soon)
I forgot one of the other main topics in the first version of this post… The new learning based on andragogy. It really keeps me busy with the serious games we build with our company. The interest is also spawn out of the experience with the new kind of learning at my study. My ideas on it will certainly evolve on this subject on this blog. Especially since I have some andragogy related projects on my agenda.
I begin to find a style of writing that I like. I begin to like my small experiments on making my points more visual and I am experimenting a bit with subheaders. While english is not my native language, I already get more fluently writing it. It is still not where I want it to be but it evolves in the right direction compared to where I was with my previous reflection.
The traffic on this blog trippled to 300 average per day the past 3 months since my last reflection. Mostly thanks to my blogs addition to the 9Rules network and the traffic is still growing. I don’t get much comments but I do get some nice e-mails and some good disscussions with friends out of it. I hear that people take my posts mainly as something to think about. Well I am not here to force commenting. It will happen or not. Although I invite you to discuss the posts, it helps me evolve my ideas
What is next? I am already working out some thoughts on two fronts. On the design front I am thinking of defining the emotional space better. On the us movement front I will do some more searching on what it really is and what it’s place should be. Also expect some new fronts since I am on the edge of a transition in my life: going from student to the working class.
Now on to the next 6 months of blogging!
Oh, and what do you think of the blog?
Update: added third main topic which I somehow forgot…

Daniel E Said,
August 4, 2006 @ 10:51
I know what you mean about somewhat disappointing amount of comments. I run a Swedish design blog together with three friends of mine. We’ve got between 50 and 100 visitors each day. A great deal of those visitors are friends from our former design school, which means that many of them got a history of 2 years of collaborating with each other.
Before we all graduated (and scattered), we wanted to build up a loose community based around a blog. We regularly encourage our visitors to send us their latest project for display on the blog etc. We hardly get any comments, projects or tips at all.
I have come to realize that just about 1% of our visitors got the energy and ambition to collaborate and build up a community. One other thing I have noticed is that the idea of exchanging ideas via blogs is something that’s not natural for most people over the age of 25 today. It seems that alltough _blogs_ are a widely spread medium, blogging and the behavior of commenting is still an early adopter thing.
Jurriaan Mous Said,
August 4, 2006 @ 12:06
Yes indeed… It seems it is not natural to share ideas online. Most is just consumed as it is. Maybe there is a generation gap…
As I think about it, it is all about bonding. The more someone feels connected, the more one will share him/herself. This connecting is maybe something I need to look into. It seems to be somewhat about influence or getting a good and familiar feeling.
Well thanks for your comment
Lenno Cornish Said,
October 18, 2007 @ 12:49
And what did you do as your celebration?
I tried to check up your Us,religion, but didn’t get the idea. I mean – there are your thoughts about US problems, but nothing religious. Or what?
Jurriaan Mous Said,
October 18, 2007 @ 18:20
Well It is not about the USA and it is technically not a religion. It is about us as people combined and the believe that something bigger is formed out of combining people and their passions. Something that can not be subtracted out of the individuals. Something holistic. It is a believe that can bring you to a higher level. More: http://jurmo.us/2006/07/01/do-you-believe-in-us/