Blog envy: filling the structure with content
Earlier I posted about my blog not meeting my technical wants. I’ve also been thinking about the content I want in my blog. What is the purpose of writing here? Some blogs contain great posts on daily life, interesting (and wacky) ideas that make you think, insightful commentary on industries and societies, or beautiful photos that make you reflect. This blog has a little of each. Maybe what I need is more focus. But if I focus, then I’ve got even less content then I already have.
Looking over some of the (approx.) 400 posts in this blog, I’m quite proud I’ve been able to maintain it for so long. I’m also a little ashamed of some of the earlier posts. It’s great to see change (and growth) over the years. But if the purpose of this site is to represent myself, should I delete some of these “high school” ideas from earlier posts? Do I want only quality posts or a quantity of posts? Should I take this site and make it into a more serious eportfolio or a more fun playground?
Either way, I am trying to come up with a design that’s a little less standard than the current one. What content do you want to see here? What content do you focus on for your site?
October 30th, 2005 at 9:20 pm
Pivot, [pivotlog.net] is what I use, and it is great! The thing that you might want is the ability to have multiple blogs - and you can edit each one individually, or sub-blogs - where you can have your main blog publish things in categories life and computer, and cam publish things in category cam.
October 31st, 2005 at 2:16 pm
Well I seperated my blog from my site so I now have 3 sections
greyskiesstudios: My online portfolio and services and tutorials
(Pre)Determined: My blog and photogallery of friends events and webcam
Fragments: Photography Blog
Its not really a case of what do we want from your site but what do you want us to get from your site.
November 2nd, 2005 at 5:49 pm
Right now I go for a “my opinion on whatever” style. Some of my old posts were incredibly stupid but I leave them up because I like to look and see how I’ve grown, which I think is interesting for other people to see too (though I’ll probably start something new when I’m out of college). A good balance between an eportfolio and fun can make a good blog—it doesn’t have to be either-or.