Thursday, April 26, 2007

D-News

I think my main problem is with D-news. I no longer feel compeled to link to stuff that is already widely available on the net already. Atleast if you know where to look. Its not my job to make it easier for people. additionaly I wasnt really getting many hits, so its a bit of a thankless job. Clearly people already know where to look. So Whats the point.

The only thing left is news related satire. Or fake news.

And even with those two things I'm not consistent or prolific enough to even get an audience. I could set goals, like one post a month.

One of the goals should be to improve my writting and practice being creative. Rather than gaining notariaty (blogariaty?) (audience).

Maybe if I leave D-news alone it will just go away. But that would be too sad to actually do.

I think if I actuallly get some closure on D-news the other blogs will benefit. So if I just update them and no D-news that should do that all by it self.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

What to do

Now that blogger has lables, I dont really need to have seperate blogs. But Seperate blogs do serve a purpose in keeping the information that is delivered narrow. So as the consumer does not have to search through the blog to get information on a particular topic.

Which is why a lot of online magazines/media outlets have a network of blogs. eg. Gawker or weblogsinc.

So what to build. Build a network of individual blogs. Put all my effort into one blog or a single blog that does everything.

Any blog that is worth anything has a fairly specific purpose. It can have wide wings, such as gapingvoid. Which is a comic, business blog, blog about blogs and other online businessey things. But they are all centred around one thing, its about the business of blogging. The comics often relate to it. The companies he consults for are using him to teach them about blogging. He then writes about this on his blog, with some nice tips. So even though the content is very different from post to post, its all about centred around a narrow focus area. Not so narrow as to exlude things that may be interesting to his readers.

Theres an interesting thought, reader base.