My excuses for not blogging often
After reading last entry on David’s James blog about reasons for not blogging enough I started to think about my own reasons for doing exactly the same thing.
User friendliness of the blog content management is important but I don’t think that is my excuse. What it is then?
I am not going to mention the natural human laziness (I’ve just done it). It could be this as well but in my case I can see two things on my way to have more often updated blog:
- perfectionism (sic!)
- type of the content I decided to write about
Perfectionism because it stops me from posting “quick and dirty” posts. Very often instead of writing maybe bit rough entry but actually writing it I wait for a bit of time when I can “do it properly”. And obviously it rarely happens.
Type of the content because I decided to post mainly solutions to common software development problems as a favour to other as I often find answers for my questions in other’s people blogs. But this type of content is pretty time consuming to create. I might to change it as I am not to be honest as excited about doing that.
So… That’s my list of excuses. What’s yours?
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rags said,
December 2, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
Rather than waiting to blog about those things which “might” be useful to others, I’d recommend blogging frequently, and include the types of posts you are talking about. I really liked the advice given here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000983.html
znachor said,
December 2, 2007 @ 6:01 pm
Sticking to a schedule will certainly do the trick. Six posts a week sounds unreal to me ATM though but the steeper the challenge is the better outcome of that might be . I could get over my fear of writing. Thanks Rags for commenting. This blog needs a bit of life!
Robbie Clutton said,
December 4, 2007 @ 6:49 pm
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