When do you blog? [modified]
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I'm fairly busy with a load of tasks at work, but often I use a fun technology or enhance my learning when I can't find a solution on Google and I think these would make good blog posts. The problem is finding the time to actually do it. Writing a blog post (at least for me) is often more than just typing for a few minutes. It involves code samples, occasional screen shots, previewing and making corrections and then finally posting. For a somewhat in-depth post this can take an hour or several. I have a running set of potential posts I would like to write but my list is getting longer and longer without much actually happening. So, here's my question. If you blog on a fairly regular basis (every week or a few times a month) and your posts are mostly instructional when do you do it? Do you have a few hours a week (like Friday after lunch) set aside to do this? Do you do it at 2am when the family is sleeping? Does your employer frown on you blogging on work time or do they actually promote it? For me, my employer doesn't really know that I do it but they do occasionally see a post or two. I just discipline myself not to take too much work time to do it. Do you have any tips that you have discovered that make the process a little smoother? Do you have an assistant? :-D I'm serious on this one. A lot of my time is spent on correcting errors, re-wording sections and fiddling with format. If I was a professional blogger I'd probably do like movie composers do. I'd write the content, throw it together and then throw it over the wall. Let my assistant clean it up and rephrase complicated sections. Then I'd proof it and post it. I'm sure many professional bloggers have a similar set up. Any services that are somewhat reasonable that you use and would recommend? Maybe this is a market that is yet untapped. :) Oh, btw, if you want to drop by my technical blog and personal info is at http://MattPenner.info. Thanks! Matt Penner
modified on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 2:01 PM
I used to have a personal blog. I wrote about politics and a bit about technology. The blog is now sitting there, without new posts for the last ~2 years. It's a shame, I enjoyed writing, but I find it hard to keep a personal blog now as I have no time at all. I even neglect The Lounge! Moreover, I maintain two different company blogs. Those take a lot of time, even if I post only twice a month or so...
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I'm fairly busy with a load of tasks at work, but often I use a fun technology or enhance my learning when I can't find a solution on Google and I think these would make good blog posts. The problem is finding the time to actually do it. Writing a blog post (at least for me) is often more than just typing for a few minutes. It involves code samples, occasional screen shots, previewing and making corrections and then finally posting. For a somewhat in-depth post this can take an hour or several. I have a running set of potential posts I would like to write but my list is getting longer and longer without much actually happening. So, here's my question. If you blog on a fairly regular basis (every week or a few times a month) and your posts are mostly instructional when do you do it? Do you have a few hours a week (like Friday after lunch) set aside to do this? Do you do it at 2am when the family is sleeping? Does your employer frown on you blogging on work time or do they actually promote it? For me, my employer doesn't really know that I do it but they do occasionally see a post or two. I just discipline myself not to take too much work time to do it. Do you have any tips that you have discovered that make the process a little smoother? Do you have an assistant? :-D I'm serious on this one. A lot of my time is spent on correcting errors, re-wording sections and fiddling with format. If I was a professional blogger I'd probably do like movie composers do. I'd write the content, throw it together and then throw it over the wall. Let my assistant clean it up and rephrase complicated sections. Then I'd proof it and post it. I'm sure many professional bloggers have a similar set up. Any services that are somewhat reasonable that you use and would recommend? Maybe this is a market that is yet untapped. :) Oh, btw, if you want to drop by my technical blog and personal info is at http://MattPenner.info. Thanks! Matt Penner
modified on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 2:01 PM
11.00 o'Clock every morning, regular as clockwork me. Grab a paper and pick a few winners, think quietly, ponder the deepest of questions about the futility of existance.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]
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11.00 o'Clock every morning, regular as clockwork me. Grab a paper and pick a few winners, think quietly, ponder the deepest of questions about the futility of existance.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC League Table Link CCC Link[^]
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Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I'm fairly busy with a load of tasks at work, but often I use a fun technology or enhance my learning when I can't find a solution on Google and I think these would make good blog posts. The problem is finding the time to actually do it. Writing a blog post (at least for me) is often more than just typing for a few minutes. It involves code samples, occasional screen shots, previewing and making corrections and then finally posting. For a somewhat in-depth post this can take an hour or several. I have a running set of potential posts I would like to write but my list is getting longer and longer without much actually happening. So, here's my question. If you blog on a fairly regular basis (every week or a few times a month) and your posts are mostly instructional when do you do it? Do you have a few hours a week (like Friday after lunch) set aside to do this? Do you do it at 2am when the family is sleeping? Does your employer frown on you blogging on work time or do they actually promote it? For me, my employer doesn't really know that I do it but they do occasionally see a post or two. I just discipline myself not to take too much work time to do it. Do you have any tips that you have discovered that make the process a little smoother? Do you have an assistant? :-D I'm serious on this one. A lot of my time is spent on correcting errors, re-wording sections and fiddling with format. If I was a professional blogger I'd probably do like movie composers do. I'd write the content, throw it together and then throw it over the wall. Let my assistant clean it up and rephrase complicated sections. Then I'd proof it and post it. I'm sure many professional bloggers have a similar set up. Any services that are somewhat reasonable that you use and would recommend? Maybe this is a market that is yet untapped. :) Oh, btw, if you want to drop by my technical blog and personal info is at http://MattPenner.info. Thanks! Matt Penner
modified on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 2:01 PM
When I'm sitting down in the bathroom. Sometimes I can't flush them down the toilet because they're the size of the Hindenburg.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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I'm fairly busy with a load of tasks at work, but often I use a fun technology or enhance my learning when I can't find a solution on Google and I think these would make good blog posts. The problem is finding the time to actually do it. Writing a blog post (at least for me) is often more than just typing for a few minutes. It involves code samples, occasional screen shots, previewing and making corrections and then finally posting. For a somewhat in-depth post this can take an hour or several. I have a running set of potential posts I would like to write but my list is getting longer and longer without much actually happening. So, here's my question. If you blog on a fairly regular basis (every week or a few times a month) and your posts are mostly instructional when do you do it? Do you have a few hours a week (like Friday after lunch) set aside to do this? Do you do it at 2am when the family is sleeping? Does your employer frown on you blogging on work time or do they actually promote it? For me, my employer doesn't really know that I do it but they do occasionally see a post or two. I just discipline myself not to take too much work time to do it. Do you have any tips that you have discovered that make the process a little smoother? Do you have an assistant? :-D I'm serious on this one. A lot of my time is spent on correcting errors, re-wording sections and fiddling with format. If I was a professional blogger I'd probably do like movie composers do. I'd write the content, throw it together and then throw it over the wall. Let my assistant clean it up and rephrase complicated sections. Then I'd proof it and post it. I'm sure many professional bloggers have a similar set up. Any services that are somewhat reasonable that you use and would recommend? Maybe this is a market that is yet untapped. :) Oh, btw, if you want to drop by my technical blog and personal info is at http://MattPenner.info. Thanks! Matt Penner
modified on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 2:01 PM
If you are the sort of person that used to keep a journal/diary I think this sort of thing comes more naturally. I've always got something 'more important' to do.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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not seeing a blog link in your profile. or your sig... why do you blog/what about? :)
Ah, forgot that piece of info! :) I've updated my original question with my blog info. I have a technical blog at http://MattPenner.info that is mainly about C# development but delves into occasional articles on Usability, SQL, GIS and some other fun or related technologies.
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When I'm sitting down in the bathroom. Sometimes I can't flush them down the toilet because they're the size of the Hindenburg.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997I think we have a member that doesn't like airships.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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I think we have a member that doesn't like airships.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
What really sucks is that I've bumped up against the up-voting limit, and now only downvotes are showing up in my reputation points. Compensation votes won't do anything but keep the message from being "automatically removed". This happens to me every day... On Monday, I lost 84 rep points because the UP votes that would have countered the down votes weren't being counted as far as rep points are concerned.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
When I'm sitting down in the bathroom. Sometimes I can't flush them down the toilet because they're the size of the Hindenburg.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997You really need to tweet us when you've had a maximum crap; try to include exact dimensions.
Best wishes, Hans
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I'm fairly busy with a load of tasks at work, but often I use a fun technology or enhance my learning when I can't find a solution on Google and I think these would make good blog posts. The problem is finding the time to actually do it. Writing a blog post (at least for me) is often more than just typing for a few minutes. It involves code samples, occasional screen shots, previewing and making corrections and then finally posting. For a somewhat in-depth post this can take an hour or several. I have a running set of potential posts I would like to write but my list is getting longer and longer without much actually happening. So, here's my question. If you blog on a fairly regular basis (every week or a few times a month) and your posts are mostly instructional when do you do it? Do you have a few hours a week (like Friday after lunch) set aside to do this? Do you do it at 2am when the family is sleeping? Does your employer frown on you blogging on work time or do they actually promote it? For me, my employer doesn't really know that I do it but they do occasionally see a post or two. I just discipline myself not to take too much work time to do it. Do you have any tips that you have discovered that make the process a little smoother? Do you have an assistant? :-D I'm serious on this one. A lot of my time is spent on correcting errors, re-wording sections and fiddling with format. If I was a professional blogger I'd probably do like movie composers do. I'd write the content, throw it together and then throw it over the wall. Let my assistant clean it up and rephrase complicated sections. Then I'd proof it and post it. I'm sure many professional bloggers have a similar set up. Any services that are somewhat reasonable that you use and would recommend? Maybe this is a market that is yet untapped. :) Oh, btw, if you want to drop by my technical blog and personal info is at http://MattPenner.info. Thanks! Matt Penner
modified on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 2:01 PM
I had a personal/tech blog that I gave up on. I've started blogging about just math/science topics, and that is easier for me to keep up with. It's something about the singular focus that seems to make it easier.
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