Random Commentary
So why is the RAXHaven back?
The RAXHaven is back because I have time to devote to it. I took the site offline officially several years ago, but long before that it was simply syndicating from my other site InfoMountain.org RAXHaven was always intended to host casual commentary in long and intermediate form. As life evolved I found myself unable to maintain the level of writing that I desired for the site.
For what it’s worth, InfoMountain was never designed to take RAXHaven’s place. My original intent was to create InfoMountain as a shortform blog which was easier to write for than RAXHaven. However, that too became ever more difficult to find time for. In the mean time social sites like Twitter and Facebook began to overpower the traditional role of the blog. I quickly found myself dedicating most of my free time to keeping those info streams updated. Sadly, even InfoMountain slipped into neglect.
Aside from my new found time I also wanted to bring RAXHaven back because I realized that the transient nature of real-time social media and that it is a poor warehouse for historical content. I feel that if you put forth the effort to generate quality content then it should be store and accessible for as long as it is relevant and useful.
Why a blog, that’s so 2000s?
While the tumblr based RAXHaven page is more akin to a blog, it’s content is not intended as such. The social integration aspect of tumblr make hosting near-time content much more feasible. Postings will be infrequent and will typically undergo several revisions prior to publishing. After a short while the articles will be archived on the SEO optimized Joomla RAXHaven site.
What kind of content will be published here?
Expect to see several types of content here though this site is primarily concerned with cyberculture, world events, personal projects and humor.
Isn’t Cyberculture / Internet Culture really just the prevailing culture?
Cyberculture has certainly become a very prevalent variation of popular culture over the last ten years. However the level to which most people identify themselves with it varies wildly. One of the most interesting aspects of its interpretation is in the breakdown among generational lines such as Gen-X, Gen-Y/Millennials, and Gen-Z.
While Gen-Z are for the most part oblivious, Gen-Y has firmly grasped the concept and has expanded it well beyond Gen-X’s expectations. As such Gen-Xers who aren’t keeping up with current trends run the risk of becoming alienated from the very thing that they helped to create.
(Source: raxhaven.com)
