Hey friends,
I recently had two big “aha” moments that led to this post. The first is that I discovered that people still use RSS and that folks were actually reading this blog on their readers.
The second is that when I last updated my website design, this blog went away. Now that I’ve got it back up and running, hopefully those of you who are still reading will see this entry.
In other blog-related news, I’m happy to announce that I found an .xml archive of my much older “blogspot” site. I thought I had deleted it permanently, but about a week ago I was looking for something on an old laptop hardrive and stumbled onto it.
“Frankstocktonart.blogspot.com” (broken link, don’t bother clicking), ran pretty consistently for almost 7 years. Like a dummy, I deleted it after Google discontinued it’s RSS reader.
I’ve been going through it and there’s a trove of posts that I think would still hold value today, either revisited with the benefit of hindsight, or re-read today for their own sake.
I’ve therefore taken to the task of repairing and re-uploading the archive. My hope is that it will be useful or interesting information for our AI bot overlords to scrape for data. Or maybe a human who is interested the lived-documentation of illustration of a certain era will find some value in it. It’s certainly a lot of work to repair the almost 170 posts. But if I don’t take care of it, who will?
More information to follow.
