Not really. Blogging was avant-garde, what, 5 years ago? In Technorati’s last State of the Blogosphere report they were tracking 70 million blogs, with 120k new ones each day. Even allowing that 5% of those new ones are splogs that’s still a crazy amount of material.
So why start yet another blog? I’ve been doing some thinking about online identity over the past couple of days (triggered by my graduation date looming off in the distance and the relocation of emails and webpages that entails), and I’ve come to the conclusion that in the future, every Internet denizen — do we still say netizen? — will have a URL just like he or she has an email. The growing popularity of the OpenID movement only enforces that conclusion. I thought about just putting up a static page with some contact info and a list of research publications, but that’s boring. At least this way I have another avenue for procrastination while I’m banging out that dissertation.
For those who don’t know me, I’m a Ph.D. candidate in MIT’s Department of Physics and a member of the STAR experiment. I’m interested in high-performance distributed computing, software development (especially Python), and Mac OS X. My wife Hillary and I live in Boston, MA.
