Should I bother to blog?
It’s been a long long time since I wrote my last blog entry. Frankly, I don’t find myself a very interesting person and I certainly don’t have any interesting to blog about. I just do the ordinary boring stuff every day like go to work and study. Well, not that I think anyone still reads this blog by now but I could write about just that, my ordinary boring life. Except that I just don’t get why people do that, why would you tell the world about all the boring and plain stuff you do every day? Who is interested in that?!
What I find even less interesting and actually a bit frustrating is people that have a blog and never post anything on it. Yep, that would be people like me. At this point I’m considering to just delete my blog forever or if I should bother to try posting something interesting or at least somewhat entertaining a bit more regularly. Since my website would be even more boring if I didn’t have a blog that’s a pro for keeping it, the con on the other hand is that I don’t have anything interesting to blog about.
I could blog about things like that Ubuntu 10.10 was released today, but mostly everyone I know that got a blog are doing just that. More interesting could be to try it out and blog about it, but wait a few hours and the same people that bloged about the release will have that subject covered as well. I guess people find that interesting to read about and I don’t blame them, but myself I’m a RHEL/CentOS/Fedora user who don’t find it very interesting to read about new releases. Oh okey, I admit new RHEL releases is a bit interesting to read about. A side from that, why does everything seem so utterly boring and uninteresting to blog about? Could it be that everyone else already did or is it because they already know?
If we, for now, assume that I will keep my blog and I want to write about things that would interest not only my nearest and dearest. Assuming that the possible topics are within the categories about me and my life, computers or all of the above. What would you find interesting to read about from my point of view?
October 10th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Ok, two reasons why I think you are wrong, and why it is perfectly fine to have a seldomly updated blog…
First of all there is the entire concept of RSS feeds. As you yourself don’t have to check blogs manually for updates, there is a very low “cost” in letting your RSS reader keep tabs on a mostly inactive blog.
Secondly there is the fact that once you post something on your blog, it is picked up by google, as well as other search engine, and hence made available for anyone who might potentially have use for it. In that regards a low number of posts most likely contains more value than no posts at all.
Myself I am not much of a blogger, but I do like to keep my blog around for those few times I’ve discovered or produced something potentially useful. Based on visitor statistics, referrers and what I have been told, there has actually been a bunch of posts which has turned out useful for other people.
In the same fashion, I really appreciate when someone else have had to figure out an unusual as well as kind of undocumented problem, and written a blog posts about it. There have been a few times when finding that sole blog post really, really made my life/job easier.
…and to finally answer your question. Whenever you have solved a general as well as non trivial problem, and where google couldn’t give you a quick answer, please document it in your blog.
October 11th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
This reminds me a demotivator that I saw couple of days ago. Blogging: never before, people that have so little to say, said so much to so few.
I would like to double what Andreas said. There’s nothing wrong with posting once in a while. I post once a month these days and it’s perfectly normal.
On the other hand I am wondering if you ever asked yourself why you’re blogging (or used to blog). Why you are blogging?