---
title: 'Past and Future'
date: '2010-08-31T07:46:43-04:00'
permalink: /past-and-future/
tags:
    - blogging
    - networks
    - twitter
---

For the next few days, my “Five Years Ago” block at right will be filled with post-Katrina posts. After all these years with the blog, it still feels very odd to have such a record of past trauma, the detail of what was going through my head in those days when I desperately needed someone around me to understand how bad things were in New Orleans.

The power of this kind of record is part of what makes me agree with [Paul Carr’s assessment](http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/22/thnks-fr-th-mmrs/): what I’ve gained in immediacy and community via Twitter, I’ve lost in preservation, longevity, even permanence.

It’s this kind of thing that has me torn between the precious little time I have for this kind of writing and the desire to keep those thoughts somewhere I might get back at them five years from now.