Looking Back and Forwards

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I thought I’d step back for a bit and reflect on the progress and success of my blog, after re-reading Jonathans 2008 New Year post.

Like Jonathan, I like to measure my personal success, not the amount off visits or clicks I get. What I was aiming to do, was have a constant flow of blog posts. At first I thought that was every second day, then every 3.5 days, and then eventually weekly, followed by monthly. What I realized is blog worthy information isn’t constant. It seems to follow the financial climate more than anything else, in the sense that blog worthy topics are typically new toys to show the Internet, and the like.

So for the last few months, my schedule has been some what random and based around life’s clock. That said, I still try to make an effort of finding something to blog about at least once a month. I still declare my blog as alive, and not dead, however slow or fast the updates be.

To me, I will call this blog dead when I feel that blogging is a chore, and not after 3 months on inactivity. Summing up, I have enjoyed writing these blog posts, and I am amazed at the amount of readers and subscribers to my blog. I’m hoping to keep this running until the end of this year and onwards. Lets see how this goes.

3 thoughts on “Looking Back and Forwards”

  1. And there goes the random pictures again! Whoops, out slipped another one.

    Seriously though, I know what you mean. I reckon for 99% of bloggers, an effort to keep a schedule of posting almost always ends in disaster. Me? Some days I write 3 blog posts in a day, simply because the day is an interesting one. And then don’t blog anything for a couple of weeks, simply because nothing happens. So it is about flow, and really, unless you have a reason to do so, the dedication required just isn’t worth it.

    The other to be wary of is the death of content. If you force yourself to blog (and sometimes even if you don’t), a lack of original content starts to kill the site. And recovering from that usually takes a while away from the keyboard and a few less blog posts. The most important thing is always good content, IMHO. Whether that comes twice a day or twice a year is irrelevant.

  2. Hehe, I was going to comment about the flickr images :P I’m trying to reach my goal of using my own pictures 9/10 of the time. I think I have to try much harder in that. Blogging is more of a hobby to me, like collecting stamps. You might not get any letters, so you hobby stays hidden away in your book shelf for a few days, and then one day you get three letter.