May 19, 2006 | blog
So I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what I’m doing blogging. Over the last 7-8 months, it has become one of my top interests and yet the last few weeks I have been having a really hard time with it.
The problem, as usual, is me. I’ve been holding back, not really sure how to express my views or ideas. The problem stems from my discomfort of conflict I think. While I shy from it, I also don’t hold back once the ‘mud’ starts flinging. More often than not, I end up getting frustrated, mad and sorry that I was not able to communicate effectively.
But that discomfort has held me back, and I want to talk about more than I have in the past. I want to discuss things, be a real part of the conversation rather than parroting others, which I feel like I’ve done. I want to posit my opinion and viewpoint on a topic rather than simply put a link to a cool post somewhere.
My limited exchange of posts and links with a number of bloggers has really whetted my appetite for real interactive communication. I’ve found a lot of great blogs, with a lot of great viewpoints. I’ve learned a lot in the last few months, most of it from blogs I’ve followed from the A-List to the Z-List (that’s me!), and everywhere in between.
All the concepts on blogging, the ideas for revenue generation, the fun stuff, the serious stuff – its really moved me down the road to a point where I thought I already was. For quite awhile I thought I was participating, but looking back I think that I’ve only been ‘lurking’, if you will. Kind of participating around the edges, though not enough to really provoke much response, or to start a thread.
This is where you’ll see a difference in what I write – this is where I’m going to let my passion for blogging, mobile communications (and more) explore to its fullest.
May 19, 2006 | blog
Well, I’m back from our mini-getaway feeling refreshed, and glad to have a fast connection to the ‘Net again.
While I was out of range, I had a chance to think a bit about what I’m trying to accomplish with my blog here. I’ll be talkiing about that in another post, but in a nutshell I’m going to change how I blog a bit, it’ll be more focused on my perspective rather than continuting to point all over the place without a plan.
Until later!
May 17, 2006 | blog
So after last night I wanted to compare the posting experience on the Blackberry to my MDA. It is similar, though the biggest difference is in the keyboard and the network speed. I had not had the opportunity to use my MDA in this area yet, and I have found that there is only GPRS available. oh well. I have to say that I enjoy the keyboard on the MDA better, however it seems the 7250 Blackberry renders the screen better.
I’ve got to adjust the layout in Opera on the MDA as its really hard to see what I’m writing.
May 15, 2006 | blog
Darren Rowse talks about Maintaining Momentum in Blogging today. This is a welcome discussion as I have been having trouble finding time and energy to get past a ‘bloggers block’ I’m having. Its inspirational enough that I’m actually getting a bit more excited trying to work through some of the site issues I’m having with Snowmoblog – RSS XML generated by WordPress won’t verify, my graphic work is as lame as I expected (Dave H. I may give you a call), and I need to upgrade the hosting service – to name a few.
Not to mention that its been hard to find time to properly review the BlackBerry units I’m working on at work. See this is the real issue – I’ve got some good plans for larger posts, but am having trouble finding the time to commit to writing them. Work is a real drain right now – and it may be because of th weather, I’m not really sure.
Anyhoo, enough of these sorry excuses, I’ve got a lot of work to do and it needs to be done. The family and I are taking a few days out of the week and heading north for a quick getaway – just a little ‘pine time’ as the saying goes around here.
Just as I was posting, Darren posted part II in this series. In this post he posits several good tips on maintaining the focus needed for building a good blogging rythum. After reading the entire post, I can really see where I’ve made a few ‘classic’ mistakes in following some good advice. More opportunity to regain focus and move forward. Thank you Darren!
May 13, 2006 | blog
Ok, here is a neat new service: BackupMyBlog
TechCrunch has the details on the new service that is currently in beta.  The BackupMyBlog service performs an automated backup of your blog once a day. The service will then email you a status report on the backup.
Great stuff, I’m trying it out on RickMahn.com to see how the service performs and evaluate the reporting features. Should be interesting, I’ve been looking for this type of service for awhile.
