What Do You Blog About?
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
I blog about web design, development and life. When I started creating this site, there were quite some stuff about web design to blog about. Not only were there links to online resources, but I also blog about my site’s development progress.
Lately, I’ve been a little tied up with studies and assignments. When I’m done with those, I’m already tired and hardly have time to do any further development of JNLS.Net, let alone blog. Hence the marked decrease in posts that are web-design related. I suddenly realize that I havn’t check stylegala for quite a while. Most of my recent blog posts, are general in nature. So general, that I even got fed up with categories and started tagging them.
The funny thing is, I also noticed a similar trend over at Danny’s “Websites Made Simple“. He used to blog about web design, accesiblity, usability and such. However, the last 3 posts on his site, are client related, and some earlier ones are a little, philosophical. His blog tagline seems to have morphed to “PR Made Simple” or something like that. Since I’m not freelancing, I had little interest with those blog posts.
Danny’s not to blame entirely. If you are a web developer who’s constantly busy with client projects, you’d certainly have something to blog about: new solutions or improved techniques. But Danny’s a designer, he doesn’t code. So I don’t think there’s much to blog about, unless it’s a photoblog.
But then again, it could be argued that it’s a lame excuse. Why name your site “Websites Made Simple” when you blog about marketing and managing clients? What I’m going at is we’re not probloggers, we don’t have endless things about a topic to blog about. Heck, even writting up a commentory on someone else’s blog take quite some time. So what do you do when you run out of stuff to blog about? Do you turn your blog into a personal blog, blogging about everything that interests you? Or do you just wait till some inspiration hits you?
I don’t have much personal view on this yet, as I’m quite new to the bloging scence. But as for JNLS.Net, it’s a personal blog after all, so I simply post whatever, whenever I feel like it. On the other hand, Andy Rutledge only posts articles that exudes quality. Naturally, he doesn’t blog every other day.
