Blogs for Specific Purposes

I have not been on my blog since I first created it more than three years ago when I was getting my MA. I created it for an IT class. Now that I am in the related PhD program after teaching in UAE for three years, I have been asked to create a blog for another IT class! Well, I am updating this one and posting for the first time. Our instructor Dr. Ariew has lectured to us about the blog being dead, and my blog, this blog, never came to life in the first place. I did have a blog for my students in UAE, but that was dead after one semester. It seems that I really need a specific purpose to write on my blog. Facebook, and to a much lesser extent, LinkedIn have become my public spaces for sharing. What is very interesting, though, is that even though I have not posted anything in three years, 166 people have viewed my blogger's profile. I think I have had three people look at my LinkedIn profile in the last 90 days, and until about a month ago, I had successfully kept my Facebook profile private until I was forced to upgrade to that bloody timeline. Anyway, it seems I have an audience here on this obscure blog, so I might just have to start posting and sharing for specific purposes.