Don’t blog enough

When I first started this blogging thing about three years ago (not in this form) I would blog several times a day with the frequency of posts never getting below one-a-day.

However, for the past few months I’ve been so busy that blogging has been an afterthought and so blog posts will either come in the form of four in one day and nothing for a week or, possibly worse, one every three or four days.

I’ve always felt that the ’successful’ blogs are the ones that have at least a daily post on a very regular basis - not a daily post for a week or two, nothing for a week or two and then back to daily for a bit.

If Up Your Ego is going to get any ‘bigger’, not that I do it to become blogfamous (a form of fame that exists in this tiny little world of bloggers and people looking at blogs) then I need to up the frequency.

But I’m not sure I have the time or dedication to up the frequency of my blogging - I still enjoy writing the odd post every now and then but the commitment required to make a daily post or more is something I struggle to find.

In fact it has almost got the point of becoming a chore - I don’t want to say goodbye to blogging completely as I often have this burning issue bugging me - something I have no other platform to vent with than this blog.

But finding something to write about every day to keep any minor level of readership is difficult.

So what should I do?

• Just give up blogging and post my vents to howtobeageek.net/jaiku and pownce as they bug me?
• Keep things as they are and just write on upyourego.com as it comes to me?
• Give up blogging completely and keep my pointless thoughts to myself?
• Work through this busy patch and ‘try’ to post every day?
• Turn Up Your Ego into a video blog and post my thoughts through vision?

I don’t know. What I do know is that, much like DoctorVee, blogging has helped me improve existing skills and develop whole new ones.

When I blog on a regular basis my writing skills improve a considerable amount, my web promotion abilities increase and so do my coding and design talents as and when I enhance the interface.

So would turning Up Your Ego into a video blog help improve my video skills? I’ve just got back, in fact as I write this I’m at the airport, from a Video Journalism course - where I’ve learnt the basics of shooting and editing.

Should I apply those skills to my blog so I can use them more than I would in my day job? Should I just turn this into a photo blog and improve my picture editing and image selection skills?

Should I turn it into a place to host the show notes for a new podcast? Or should I introduce all of those things as a way of getting ‘more’ out of my time?

Would having a combination of photos, videos, audio and text in alternate posts be confusing or interesting?

I don’t know. What I do know is that I don’t blog nearly enough!

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