Dunno how I missed this, but anyway...
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a survey that looked at why people read blogs, well last week Trevor Cook posted about why people write blogs, and what the future of the blogosphere might hold:
"Most bloggers have leapt on-board through a sense of adventure. The old - head west, pioneering spirit. We have put up sites, blogged away to our hearts content, just to be part of it all.
What happens when it settles down to an elite / corporate phenomenon?
We'll need strategies.
We can't spend hours everyday posting frequently as the SEO freaks insist.
We are not alternative news sources. We don't have opinions on everything. I can't be bothered linking to everything I see that others might find interesting, I'd like to but life's too short.
Yet if we slowdown, kick-back and just post to our blogs occasionally will that mean that no-one ever comes. I know we're not suppose to fixate about traffic - but its human.
I really feel like I want to have a clear blogging strategy - my 'let's just do it and see where it leads' enthusiasm is starting to dry out.
One strategy that does seem viable to me - is a sort of open source literature search type activity.
Under this model I don't give a stuff about the audience, I post about things that I find interesting now and probably will in the future too.
I post my comments and thoughts, as I might in a notebook.
Only its open-source, if you're interested you can read it, but who cares? I'm really blogging for myself. Any comments etc I get from open-sourcing it is a bonus.
That way blogging 'fits' into my life and doesn't just drain away the hours on some 'media-alternative' folly"
(read it)
(with thanks)
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