What exactly is an acceptable blog entry?
Okay...so I've only had this blog going for a few months and though I'm not blogging regularly (hell...I skipped the entire month of July), I am still interested in continuing this blog thing. As you may have noticed, I've decided to take the white-paper approach with my blog. This makes me end up with longer, less frequent blog entries, that aren't necessarily the personal rant, rave or questioning format typical of blogs, but rather I try to keep them educational and contemplative. The advantages to this versus posting a bunch of white-papers to our company website is:
- There is no editing process (notice the errors?), so things are quicker to write and not wordsmithed until I feel like killing the editor.
- They're indexed better and faster so they produce better Google (and some of those other search engine) hits.
- My views aren't necessarily those of the company. It offers me a little room to say what I think.
- Blogs are cool.
On the negative site:
- My blog entries to take more time to create (read: less frequent entries)
- They're long and require more time of the reader
- I feel like I have to stay somewhat "on topic" and can't just talk about some cool technology I just discovered unless I can relate it to collaboration
So what are your thoughts? Is it cool for blogs to be longer & less frequent, or am I abusing the technology concept? Is the "educate & provoke the reader" concept useful or would the semi-daily observation be more appropriate? Comments (or personal feedback) welcome!!
