I've examined personal web pages a number of times in these columns. And elsewhere in cyberspace I've experimented with them. I'm fascinated by the idea of a life lived in public, yet moderated by what someone chooses to make public. For quite a while I flirted with the idea of daily updates, but never really took the step into the deep end. Perhaps it was the conceit of the idea that stalled me. Yet even without published expression of a public life, I continued to "think outloud" in terms of what I might write about and post.

And then, one day, I realized that I no longer perceived myself as "a life on the web". It wasn't only that I was busy with other projects, or that the technical/cultural difficulties of posting both in Hebrew and in English hindered developing my pages. I admit that I found that I wanted to include a bit of technical wizardry that demanded more time than was available, but since on the whole I was interested in text and pictures, that was a rather lame excuse. Rather bluntly, I discovered that I only rarely read "personal web pages" anymore, and that my interests had shifted.

But keep your eyes open. I still want to play around with the possibilities, and one day I may just show up again on your local CRT.

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