We made it! Though I feel a little like I ran out of puff on the home stretch – overseas in Canada at the Association of Canadian Archivists conference my time filled up with sessions and related social happenings, plus a few urgent issues which arose back in Melbourne – the #blogjune experience has still been an enormously valuable one.<\/p>\n
I wrote 24 blog posts in the month – not quite one a day – and over 10,500 words. Overall, given everything else that’s going on in my life at the moment, I’m happy with where I ended up.<\/p>\n
#blogjune has also brought more visitors to Context Junky than ever before. I’m approaching 1,000 visitors for the month and hope this post will get me into four digits. It probably doesn’t sound like a lot to some people, but it’s a lot for me.<\/p>\n
My most popular post by far was I Am For An Archive<\/a>. Though I wrote it in one sitting I had been considering that idea in my head for a while, so I’m really happy people liked it. I was happy with it too.<\/p>\n The concurrent posts Skills for digital historians<\/a> and Newspapers the old-fashioned way<\/a> also seemed to strike a chord. But there were others I liked, such as\u00a0From Thaemlitz to Duchamp and back again<\/a>, which didn’t get a lot of visits. So if you’re reading this, why not check it out now and let me know what you think? It even has a soundtrack!<\/p>\n The pressure of daily (or near daily) blogging also made me put up a few posts of the sort that wouldn’t usually appear here, like the day I discovered I was being kicked out of my flat<\/a>, or my rant against the state of Australian politics<\/a>. I don’t have any issues with what I said, but they weren’t very ‘Context Junky’ in tone or content.<\/p>\n The post\u00a0that got the most comments was Ulysses<\/em> and other books I haven’t read<\/a>. The post which made me a little teary writing it was Parallel histories, overwhelming histories<\/a>. And the two ‘filler’ posts where I ran out of words and decided to exhibit some of my photographs were Photography<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Victoria photo gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n And there were a few more things in between. Overall, when I got on a roll #blogjune definitely helped with my tendency to procrastinate<\/a>, because the ‘every day’ posting schedule doesn’t have the space. There is no putting off until tomorrow, because tomorrow needs its own post. I’m hoping some of that writing mojo continues. Given what’s coming up, I’m going to need it.<\/p>\n Thanks to everyone who visited over the month. And thanks to all the other #blogjune bloggers out there – I’ve been dipping in and out of your wonderful posts, and look forward to doing it all again alongside you in 2015.<\/p>\n But for now, normal blog service will be resumed as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"