Trumblog

Three weeks ago I started a blog post with a description of my luck ending up with an empty seat beside me on the Jet Blue flight to Oakland visiting a client. Since then I’ve been back to SF, traveled to NY for a day, launched a website for this client and saw the world’s view of the USA change on November 4th.  But I still haven’t finished that blog post.  The topic of that post was the same as this one; a commitment to blogging. Ironic huh?

Blogging is hard.  It takes commitment to keep doing it, to pay attention day after day and develop content. It takes time that could be spent with your family, working, reading, meditating.  It takes creativity to come up with ideas and new takes on existing ones rather than writing “me too” posts.  It takes resolution to stay on message, maintain a theme and keep up with the topic that you and the occasional reader care about, rather than drift willy-nilly from idea to idea.

I’ve been a crappy blogger lately.  If you look back at posts for the last few months you’ll see post after post of auto generated “My bookmarks…” Del.icio.us links with a post here and there.  My last real post was written 2 months ago, back in September.  Between then and now there have been 7 posts with a combined total of over 40 links, but no real content from me.  I’ve been a lazy blogger and am going to change that.

I can’t promise to do this over night, nor that I won’t stumble now and then, but here’s what I’ll commit to.

• At least 1 real post a week, hopefully 2
• Stopping Postalicious posts, if you really can’t live without those bookmarks then check out my lifestream or subscribe to my del.icio.us feed
• Add better social features to the blog; cocomment is toast, my About section needs updating and links to contact me are needed

The first commitment is the hardest.  The second is done as of right now. The third I’ll get to in the next few days as long as it doesn’t conflict with the first.

The commitment that I ask of those of you who read regularly is to keep me honest.  Ping me if I didn’t post this week.  Let me know if I’m just saying the same thing everyone else is about some new topic.  Help me be blogger that I tell my clients that they should be.

Thanks for your patience and wish me luck!