I love this post from Marc Jenkins talking about how to grapple with what to blog about and how to write a personal blog. This part resonated with me.
Thus I’ve come to the conclusion that I should stop trying to set boundaries for what my personal blog should be. It should be whatever I want it to be in the moment. It’s more fun, more genuine, more likely to create connection, if I share what’s on my mind.
Coming from an SEO mindset and anything under 300 words has been pointless, being able to write short posts, highlighting something, and not caring about the algorithm is rather liberating. 1 I feel also although I’m not expecting every post to be a runaway success, it’s nice that my writing leads to a comment, or a share, or somebody leaving a message in the guestbook. Heck I may even find my way onto their blogroll.2
Wandering the indie & open web and returning to blogs and RSS feed readers is a bit more work to get going, but once you do, you find cool sites. Like this one.
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- Ironically doing so in the last few months has seen my traffic on this site go up nicely. ↩︎
- I need more sites to add to mine. If you think I’m on my RSS feed, please come up with a 88×31 gif button. Please and thank you! Use this if you get stuck. ↩︎