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Blogging Isn’t My Thing

March 17th, 2007 by John Hok

Well as you can probably tell, I haven’t made a post in a few days. Personally as well, blogs are very new to me and I wanted to create this blog just to have a little experiment. I went ahead and created it and started making some posts but I think I have quickly found out that blogging just isn’t my thing.

I don’t get the same satisfaction from blogging as I do from say coding or designing. Maybe I’m just a different type of person but I can definitely say that I don’t find blogging too “joyful” for me or self satisfying. For me, doing what I enjoy is one of my important philosophies and this is one of the luxuries of doing work on the Internet. It has allowed me to pursue things as designing and programming, which I enjoy a lot, while forgetting other things that I don’t like so much, and experimenting on other new things I haven’t done before.

Clearly though, I just don’t really enjoy blogging so the blog will be on a “temporary hiatus”. I may or may not make posts regularly, rather it will just depend on whether I have anything I feel like writing about and sharing; so don’t be expecting new entries everyday anymore (not like you did anyways).

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17 Mar 2007 at 4:04 amcarl

don’t worry you’ll get used to it!
17 Mar 2007 at 4:05 amcarl

and yea i forgot!

nice your a programmer!!!

cheers,
carl
17 Mar 2007 at 4:52 amesofthub

John, I think I felt the same way as you do about blogging. In Dec ‘06, I made the fewest number of entries in my blog, “My SysAd Blog.” I got tired quickly and decided (frustrated) blogging wasn’t for me–so I thought. So in January ‘07, I grudgingly posted 6 posts. Then all of sudden, I started noticing that my traffic was spiking. I was wondering why the heck was causing that because I wasn’t posting frequently and no one was linking to me. Then I noticed I was getting a lot of traffic from Google searches (stats via MyBlogLog.com). My niche posts were starting to get indexed by the search engines. That was the motivation I needed to continue. As you can see for 2007, I posted 68 HOWTO’s in Feb and so far I posted 30 in Mar. Frankly speaking, my blog is definitely a niche blog and it needed time to find its technical audience. I’m getting about 2500 unique PV per week. I think that’s pretty good for a new blog.
Here’s my post pattern:

▼ 2007 (104)
o ► March (30) (newbie and still encouraged)
o ► February (68) (newbie and getting encouraged)
o ► January (6) (newbie and ready to throw in the towel)

▼ 2006 (50)
o ► December (10) (newbie and quite discouraged)
o ► November (7) (newbie and discouraged)
o ► October (21) (newbie and excited)
o ► September (12) (newbie and newbie)

Prior to September ‘06, I didn’t really know much about blogging. I thought it was all about MySpace, and I wasn’t really into that.

Hang in there dude. Let your blog gain some traction.
17 Mar 2007 at 10:26 amJohn Hok

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I’m sure I’ll still make entries on a semi-regular basis. I’m sure blogging takes as much time and effort as other things. I’ll just see how it goes.
18 Mar 2007 at 3:09 amAjith

John I agree that blogging takes much time and also it is tiresome but still your posta were realy useful… Please think twice..Hope youll continue..
18 Mar 2007 at 3:30 pmBryan Baker

***John Hok***
No problem bro…I’ll check your new posts even if you don’t post daily
28 Mar 2007 at 1:35 pmRobert Irizarry

It really is time consuming and I don’t even post more than twice a week. A lot of it is research time. I blog about guitar ergonomics and guitar building - a relatively small niche. Much of my time is spent reading, googling and participating in related forums. I’d love to post more often but it’s a real challenge. Ultimately though, I do enjoy the process. Without the work I put into research, I would only be aware of only a small fraction of what I’ve gathered up along the way.r
29 Mar 2007 at 4:27 amNirmal

John,
Initially when i started blogging, i too thought the same way…but then after few posts, i was really into blogging.
So dont worry, keep on posting.
20 Apr 2007 at 4:00 pmmelvin,foong

Im sure you will get the hang of it.

You are darn adorable =)
15 Jun 2007 at 10:11 amBen Cass

Don’t give up now man! You don’t want to be classified as one of the many who quit blogging after a few months!