Blogging standards

9/10/25:

Note: This was intended to be an aspiration type post to myself for a blog that did not have an audience at all in the beginning. Since then, it has grown a little, but the extent to that growth is indeterminate as far as I'm willing to research it. In other words, maybe all the audience I get now is bots. Nobody comments here.

I suspect that the post is out of date. I thought of removing it, but that would violate my standards of complete candor. Removing it would be denial, and that is what I try to avoid if at all possible.

Anyway, I don't review these standards very often at all. I notice it is getting attention as far as clicks go, therefore some commentary needs to be applied to this basic admission or mea culpa.

The tendency to be full of shit has affected everyone, even me, which bugs me a bit. It's a pandemic of bullshititis. Now, that's funny.

Update, 4/5/25:

This will be the new featured post. Overall, the blog is meant to be a personal resource. It is also open to anyone who'd like to research a topic that I've researched a bit. Not claiming to be an authority though. You could also use the chatbots, as I do, but this one is done by a human. For what that's worth.

Original post of 5/26/12 at the earliest:

1. Read this list before I make any more posts.  Each new post, review this list first in order to see if the new post adheres to these standards.
2. I won't talk out my ass.  If I do, I'll put a speculation alert in the body of the post.
3.  Whatever I do, I won't include my personal feelings in any of this stuff, it is supposed to be about the future, and how that future may unfold, not how I feel about it 
4. With respect to politics, I won't electioneer.  Sure, I'd like to see Dems lose, but if they don't, that is the way it is.  This country has been moving in the wrong direction for a long time, nothing I can do about that now. 
5.  Try to be professional.  This is a weak point because I tend to be sloppy and careless.  Try to be more careful and exact.  Always.
6. Don't let myself get caught up in the latest fad.  Fads don't have staying power or they wouldn't be fads.
7. Nobody reads blogs anyway.  Outside their own church, that is.  Write as if nobody is reading.  In case anybody is, that may be considered a plus, but don't count on it.  Don't write for popularity.  Write for accuracy.  Nobody's interested in accuracy.  That's why this blog will never be popular.
8. This world reminds me of the Simpsons.  Yeah but, remember the sense of humor.  That's cuz you're gonna need it.

Update:

Note on the above standards:  I don't adhere to them rigorously, but the conventions below, I do:

Throw in a few conventions with respect to links here:

1. Links to posts in this blog are in bold like this: Blogging standards
2. new! Google are in italics , like this Amazon link:  Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think  (It's not a google link, but it is italicized for this example --- maybe both will be italicized)  Look at it this way, if I mark a Google link with a different background color, the be aware that there will be more than one Google link.)
3. Links to pdf files are in green, like this:  The Microwave Thruster Concept