Chris Betcher

2011 has been an interesting year for blogging. I feel like my own personal blogging has been really suffering lately, not just from being really busy at work, but also from the endless distractions of Twitter and Google+ which, if I let them, could easily become my sole places for sharing stuff online.  Certainly, there are some people, like Mike Elgan , who use Google as their sole online presence and funnel all their other online stuff into G+.  It's a potentially intriguing strategy, as the engagement factor on G+ is certainly very high.  You could also argue that Twitter has replaced a great deal of sharing that was one done via blogs, and there's little doubt that between the "Big Three" of Facebook, Twitter and Google+, the nature of blogs and blogging  has shifted considerably since I first started using them back in 2005.  I'm blogging less, for sure, and it definitely leaves a void that I miss filling. However, this was also the year when I ...

On January 1 this year, thanks to a bit of prodding from my mate John Pearce , I started a 365 Photo Challenge... whereby I planned to take a photo every single day this year and post it to the web. I'd tried doing this once before but never made it longer than a few days before I lost focus and let it slip away.   So here we are nearly 11 full months into my 365 Days of Light Photo project and I'm pleased to report I haven't missed a single day yet! ( I've been late to post them a few times, but never more than about 48 hours behind schedule either, which I think is pretty darn amazing!) I post them all to a Posterous site I set up called 365 Days of Light , which in turn crossposts to Twitter, Identica,  Flickr. and PicasaWeb (which is really Google+).  It also used to post to Facebook until I quit my account there).  Here is a link to the collection so far ... (minus the first few days of January which I forgot to include back then) Part of the challenge for me wa...