Generations of blogging

I came across a thoughtful article of Shelley's on the development of blogging:

And weblogging is maturing in ways other than just technologically. Consider the the first generation of the weblogging, based on discovering what weblogs are and how they work. This is analogous to a child learning what its legs are and how they can be used. Following the early exploration stage, there was the second weblogging generation, much of it based on links and popularity. This is so reminiscent of our teen years, and our desire to fit in, to be popular, that the analogy to human behavior is nothing less than astonishing.
I'm hoping that we're heading into a third generation of weblogging, young adulthood if you will.

Interesting - however, I'm still very much a first-generation weblog. Not surprising really, seeing as I've been blogging for a whole 25 days. Oh well, I have plently of time to catch up :)

This morning I received a long-awaited letter from Royal Holloway (the only one of my six university choices that I hadn't yet heard from). It turns out they've taken a whole month to issue me a letter confirming that I will receive an offer from them, which I was told in the interview. Slight anti-climax, then! Hopefully I'll get the UCAS offer in the next week or so.

In other news, I'm trying to get my site up and on its feet properly - at the moment I have a front page where fully half of the internal links don't work (as I have yet to write content for them) and the whole site's a bit...bare. Hopefully when all the content's in I'll do a redesign so that it looks better. Not in the next couple of weeks though, because I now have to try to finish all my holiday work before we go back to school on Thursday.