After five years of blogging I’ve decided to publish all my blog posts as a graphic novel with me as caped superhero. My superpower would be the perfectly timed wisecrack. Just kidding. I do want to make a change though. I’m going to focus my blog more on photography and see what happens.
There are three things I’m passionate and deeply interested in. (These, of course, do not include the really important things in life like my new wife and family and friends. Just to be clear.)
These three things are:
- Writing software (my day job)
- Reading (both Fiction and Non-Fiction)
- Writing
- Photography
Ok, that’s four things. Notice that math isn’t one of those three things.
And then there’s blogging. Where does that fall in this list? Certainly number three. But where else? All. None. Some. Which is exactly the problem.
Everything I’ve read about creating a successful blog (usually on a successful blog) suggests that the blog should specialize in something. Pick a topic. Any topic. And run with it. Right there, Mike’s blog equals blogging fail. My blog is too schizophrenic.
Here’s a great post on writing a blog by Penelope Trunk (whom I’m a big fan of).
I’m not sure how this will work out, but as I said it’s an experiment. I’m going to leave my posting of whacky youtube videos and random links to my twittering and try to write about where my life intersects with photography. That said, I’m going to try to do it in a way that doesn’t bore those of you not so interested in photography.
I hope you stick with me and keep reading, thanks.
Thanks Reeves for the photo.
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You’re welcome for the photo… now where’s my freakin’ royalty check?
Check is in the mail.
I love watching how peoples’ blogs change. Usually people talk about how their blog is changing because they are changing. But you have a twist on things where you deicide that some stuff you post is better on Twitter (I think I agree) and so you make room for experimenting with new stuff. Change is so hard. And we should all be so honest and brave about what stuff belongs where in our own lives.
Penelope
I totally agree with your change. It only makes sense to be more focused on your blog. I struggling at that too.
I started out by doing my blog about computing and developing (also my day-time job – and at that time more my hobby than it is now). I wanted a blog to publish my articles about open source software. Then it started to be about music. Now there almost no computing, the music is still there but almost outdone by photography. But it’s still not very focused. On top of that, I have to do it in different languages, so that the german part of my family can read it too.
Now most of my random links about music and gadgets and other shared news, is being shared via delicious.com and Google Reader. (Twitter is also a very good medium for random things.) Hopefully that will make my blog more personal.
/Daniel
Thanks for the comments everyone, they inspire me to get off my buttish region and post more!