I’m just thinking about what’s next for this blog.
Blog or Die! was founded in 1995, 30 years ago this month, as a personal blog covering, as the masthead says:
Thoughts and commentary on politics, technology, travel, religion and current events.
Content has evolved over the years. Commentary on religion has gotten its own site. Politics and current events moved to a series a sites (check out the Blog Roll on the right side of the page that includes other sites of mine) when they seemed to be taking over. While I still travel, I’m not really a travel writer. I like photography, but I write about that in a local Facebook group. My writing on technology has primarily narrowed to the topic of radio.
What I have learned is that website readers and YouTube channel viewers like content to stay on a topic and not wander around. While there is a worldwide readership for content about radios, there is not one for “what Kevin thinks about stuff.” It is unfortunate that a blog that has settled on the radio topic has a title that is so generic, but that’s life and I don’t intend to change it. Anyway, I get far more views on social media (as many as a million a month) than I get on the blog anyway. I’m a moderator of the Tesla FSD Supervised group on Facebook and participate in a dozen more.
I’m not sure how the radio topic will evolve in 2025. At this point I’ve completed my first giveaway. I have more radios already than I can share the love with, so I don’t anticipate buying many more after the ATS-25 MAX Decoder, and so new radio reviews will be few and far between. My personal view is that both cheap radios and very high end radios are both a waste of money for someone like me. Right now I’m considering more radio reception report and how-to content for this blog. I have a new year’s resolution to put up an outdoor antenna, and I’ll document that process.
I hope all my readers will have a healthy and prosperous new year.