To Blog or Not to Blog?
July 8th, 2008
Steven Frank of Panic fame has managed to capture my feelings perfectly in his post about blogging. Almost daily I alternately think that I should write a blog entry, or that I should blow the whole thing up and make a simple portfolio site.
Much like Steven, I ponder if I should be writing about what generally boils down to either a) personal matters or b) trivial matters - both of which would be better suited to places that aren’t my personal website. Still, other days I think that without my website, I would have probably not have learned as much about web design, nor would I have had as much fun going thru the old entries seeing what I had to say, what others had to say in reply, and generally just shaking my head wondering what I was thinking. Surely one day I’ll look back at this post and do the same.
Twitter’s existence certainly has complicated things for me as well, as Frank also notes. Not that I really churn out much good content anywhere, but Twitter does suck up all of those little ideas that could certainly grow into longer winded blog posts down the road. Dumping them onto my Twitter page allows them to die the short, painless death that is probably for the best in the long run. In any event, most of my ideas for blog posts (generally about something relating to a website or user interface that bugs me) gets sucked into that vortex and goes away, thus leaving my material for this site much thinner.
Ah well. As long as it’s still fun in some weird or small way, or as long as someone still stops by and reads this thing (surprisingly, a lot of folks still do), it’ll be worth my while.
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July 24th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Hey, reading your blog convinced me, when we were first dating, that you’re a normal, intelligent, thoughtful person. So, if nothing else… ;)
Oh, and I’m having loads of fun manipulating your stats. I’m trying to make “Awesome Girlfriend” the number one search.