I’ll keep this short, because it’s a meta post. And “meta means murder” (I read somewhere). And if I read it somewhere, it _must_ be true! Anyhow, let’s continue.
After much figurative navel-gazing, I realize I’ve been reluctant to post here because I’d subscribed my Facebook profile to this blog, such that everything I wrote was being cross-posted over there. And as cool an idea as that was, it meant that in the back of my head I was writing for a lower-common-denominator audience. Oh, not to denigrate my Facebook pals in relation to all of you dear readers and dear leaders (even though they won’t see this, ha ha); rather, I know what _those_ folks are interested in, and there are pretty large swaths who don’t care about random musings on JavaScript replete with code examples, which is perfectly fine; I still love them all. Facebook being a “social” network, just as I’d probably not walk into a party and subject a relatively random group of friends to a discussion of Objects versus Arrays (complete with code examples), not even at a _Google_ party, the same goes for the large virtual party which is my Facebook profile. Yes, that’s where the party is happening; don’t forget: you read it here first!
A better solution by which burnination can be achieved: create a separate RSS feed which only incorporates items I’ve tagged with “facebook” and link that up; only those party-worthy pearls will get auto-posted. Like the proverbial hole in the fence around the nudist colony, I’m looking into that.
I’m usually VERY annoyed at people blogging ALL random shit in their head. Yeah, they may be good at 5 things, but that doesn’t mean everyone should blog all 5 things on the same blog. People should create vertical blogs that’ll allow subscribers a CHOICE as to what specialization they’re interested at. For example, a respected photographer I follow, writes about his daugher and dogs. No disrespect, but I only want to follow photography stuff. I prefer he does something like this:
SocialMichael.blog.com <— personal one for socializing
GuiMichael.blog.com
GoogleMichael.blog.com
JavaScriptMichael.blog.com
I remember you saying that. I hope I don’t have just 5 types of things in my head, though; I mean, take a look at the categories list to the right, and the number of things I just have under “Randomness” (greater than the number in any other category). That’s a rather boring category for the most part, but contains things I just wanted to throw out there as part of the bigger picture, things that might intrigue //some//one, but that everyone else would ignore.
The thing is: you’re entirely right. If I were trying to build up a themed blog with any sort of following, this setup is pretty bad… But I don’t care about doing that. I could probably come up with enough things to say in one narrow category so as to be able to post frequently enough so that it doesn’t get just one post every six months, but not in more than a couple categories, and what about all the other stuff characterizable as “random”? That’s the mental noise I deem just barely worthy enough to make available to the world.
Further, the overall frequency I post wouldn’t quite be enough to support even //one// more specialized blog, at this moment. It’s possible I’ll find myself writing a lot about one specific topic, in which case it would make sense to break that out into its own blog (which would probably take the form of a permanent view into a set of categories in this same database).
But let’s say… I decide to start writing down my dreams. I think //that// would be worthy of a completely separate blog, given potential posting frequency, specific-ness of category, and desire to prevent polluting the rest of the pool with stuff most people wouldn’t want to context-switch around. But the rest of this has always been just “life, and the thoughts that occur to me”, because I haven’t achieved the level of specialization / ability to compartmentalize enough to be able to decently break things up any other way, yet. Not that I’d even want to.