Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Proactive Blogging I'm giving a lot of thought to doing less reactive blogging.  Hey, look what this other guy over here said about this.  More here's what's on my mind. I'm doing some soul searching, self-discovery activities lately.  Finding out what my (er, supposedly) spiritual gifts are.  What my MBTI is.  What my Bloginality is.  What my destiny (according to Emode.com, if you believe in that stuff) is.  What my career path (PDF) is.  What my passion is.  What my goals and dreams are.

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The Posts that Never Were - or - Blogging, Interrupted I'm having trouble completing an entire blog post.  In my absent-mindedness and inattention, I often start a thought stream/blog post, only to abandon it after losing interest or being interrupted. I really blog much more than you see on this weblog.  I keep a personal journal in an application called TreePad Business Edition.  This application is a stopgap until I can complete my planned personal knowledge management application.  I record web pages that represent my current learning and observation interests at any given point in time.  However, only a small percentage of those recordings ever make it to the web for sharing or comments.  They usually languish in my TreePad file, lacking the integration that I often ponder. I very often post things to a custom category (my "scratchpad") that I keep just for posting trivial items that would otherwise dilute the weblog.  I don't want to crowd my weblog so much that first-time visitors get the wrong impression of my interests.  Usually my traffic comes from search engines, so this might make it unlikely that the reader would seek out an about page, even if I did put one up (if I could ever get around to it). The thing about weblogs being updated so often, is that no consistent message (profound or not) sticks around for very long.  New posts (many times trivial) bump the personally profound posts that I would actually like people to read.  I'm considering several ways of restructuring my blog so that people are more likely to read items I personally want to emphasize.  I'm not clamoring for an audience, I just want to show my "best work." So, please don't think that I am a lazy blogger.  I have much to say.  It's just hard to post sometimes.

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