I’ve been looking back at the posts on this site and the commitment that I supposedly made (internally) a couple of months ago about posting regular, interesting content. But it seemed to die a death very promptly.
I think that there may be a bit of a vicious circle here (in my own situation at least). I’d love to post regular interesting stuff, but for that to happen I need to feel that it might be read. By far the most commented stuff here is when I link up code. Those posts take a fairly substantial amount of time for me to complete as they are born of the result of my own frustration of hours spent tinkering with code, which I think might be useful for others to be clued up on. I also need time to gather my thoughts and structure what exactly I’m trying to say to people. This all adds up.
If I post more often, I fear the lesser quality of content might be pretty boring for the majority of people and probably not at all worthy of feedback from them. So I end up in a kind of stalemate position – should I post this/shouldn’t I/Oo-er and I don’t do anything. I’m not saying that I have a massive amount of visitors here, I’d just like them to enjoy the experience when they visit.
Just post whatever you want to, your audience will find you, but even if it doesn’t, who cares? Who are you writing for?
I write/post pictures or whatever for myself, and sometimes other people like it, which is nice, but setting out to please other people is kind of thankless and in a way dishonest, isn’t it?
This guy says it (as well as a lot of other things) a lot better than me: http://www.marco.org/93193436
I don’t think I’m really being dishonest wanting an audience am I? I agree with everything that post is saying, I made the decision to merge this personal blog with a techie offering I used to have together so that my single persona wasn’t spread across the two.
I’ve got a book of post ideas I’ve had, but haven’t got round to posting them either for fear of them being unread or not as well researched as I’d like. Maybe there is a route out of this trap, I’ll just get on with it.
Make a point of skipping the Twitter stage and building a potential tweet into a full post.
I’ve found Twitter to be good for this, it gets the publishing juice flowing as it were.
Also, I think if you just post then you’ll get smarter and get comments. Blogging is open sourcing your mental and personal development. Don’t worry about things that are half-baked.
Happy blogging!
Indeed Carl, this is how I’ve always treated it in the past – but something has changed the random incoherent rambling that I would have blogged about back when I started this site 6 years ago (!) Maybe it’s because there are so many voices around now.
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