This isn’t the first time I’ve attempted keeping a blog; several other version have lived at doughamlin.com since I registered it in 2002. Past versions are lost to posterity, and I’m OK with that.
The latest iteration of this blog is by any measure a patent failure: I launched it on June 1 last year and have a grand total of three posts (this one is the fourth, and I had a fifth, which I ended up taking down). This is entirely my fault, and I aim to change it. But I am asking for your suggestions on how I change it.
I recently started a link blog, where I comment on the best of what I find online — I modeled it after Kottke.org and Snarkmarket, and the links run the gamut of my personal and professional interests, which are many. (If you follow my Tumblr or Google Shared Items feeds, you’ve seen fewer links from me lately, as they’ve all been going on my new link blog instead.) I’ll share the link to this new blog soon, but I want to make sure it has enough content before letting it loose (I also want to make sure I’m disciplined enough to keep updating it).
One option I have is rolling my new link blog into this blog; this is probably the surest way to ensure regular and frequent posts on this blog. However this would also corrupt my original purpose for Doug’s Blog, which was to post longer, thoughtful posts about… well about whatever is on my mind.
I could also do nothing, and continue to post longer item here infrequently, with short, frequent updates at the link blog.
Or I could nuke (i.e. delete) this blog, which is what I’ve always done with my past blogs that I deemed failures.
I’m sure there are some compromises too, and I’d be happy to hear them.
So, I know I have at least one loyal reader, and I’d love to hear thoughts on what I should do.
Obrigado!