McGee’s Musings turns twenty four

Twenty four years ago today I made the first public post on McGee’s Musings. Going public with my writing grew out of my work teaching information technology strategy at the Kellogg School. I was greatly influenced by the examples and technologies offered by Dave Winer. When I later created a course on knowledge management, Winer graciously made licenses available to my students for Radio Userland. Radio Userland still remains one of the best blogging tools ever offered. I wish it had found the market it deserved. Like much of Winer’s work, however, it was ahead of its time.

While I continue to write for myself regularly, I’ve been less diligent about sharing that work publicly. I don’t entirely understand why that has been the case. For one thing, I think the blogosphere has lost some of its conversational nature. And the places where conversations are occurring online these days tend to promote forms of interaction I would just as soon avoid. We’ll see how it continues to evolve.