May 26 2006

What do you mean, I lost all my data?!!

Published by Jeff Widman at 8:24 am under Blogging

Wrote a nice post last night about both my reasons for starting a blog, and my intended audience. However, sometime between when I pressed save and when the computer actually attempted to save, I lost it.

Still, the exercise was valuable to me in determining what I’ll post about, and what I won’t.

The gist of it all is that I intend to keep the focus of this blog rather narrow. I’ve decided that in an effort to provide value to the readers I’ll constrain my blog postings to the subject of life.

Actually, I’ve been thinking quite a lot about this lately. A reader’s time is important, and I don’t want to waste it with posts about my non-existant cat. (What Seth Godin rather appropriately terms a “My Cat” blog.)

However, as incomprehensible as this may seem to many, a blog is also about relationships. While blogs themselves may be one-way communication mediums, life provides a multiplicity of other ways for my readers to respond and interact with me, even without ever coming face to face.

My intended audience is:

  • Those who know me already and want to keep up with what’s going on in my life
  • Those who don’t know me, and want to know more about me because of an impending interaction of some form or other
  • Those who don’t know me, and are mostly interested in my thoughts and their applicability to their own lives

 

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