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Sunday March 27, 2005 - Permanent link to this post -
I'm finding it very difficult to write on this site at the moment. I'm getting a whole new readership of people I consider contemporaries (or gurus in some cases) whom I am quickly coming to regard as friends, thanks to the introduction of the Look Up! game and a ton of referrals from Mr Oxton and Mr Mientjes amongst others. I'm getting more hits now than I ever thought I would, and I love it. It's flattering when people I don't know leave comments. It's very flattering when people who's sites I read leave comments.
I feel now that I have an obligation to my new readership (as well as one to keep my long-standing readers interested). I should be giving good content, but at the moment, I just can't think of anything to write. I'm a web designer/developer. If you look at my Linky page or at the Del.icio.us bookmarks in the Leave Me section of the siedbar, you'll see that all I ever read is web design, standards, accessibility and usability. I love it. I find these subjects immensely interesting, but when I get home from work there's an 8-months-pregnant wife and a house to take care of. The prospect of being a father overwhelms me. Writing about web design doesn't even come onto the radar when that's on your mind.
I haven't talked about it on here yet (and I don't know why not) but I'm on the team for the Web Standards Wiki. Before long this involvement is going to mean writing about web standards. I'm relishing it. I really am looking forward to having to write about a given subject; a given subject that will no doubt interest me greatly. This motivation to write about industry-related subjects might bring about a change in content style on this blog. It might not though. I might just keep writing about impending fatherhood/new-dad-dom and whatever family party I've been to at the weekend.
Hits is not my motivation for running this site (although hits do make me smile). I run it because I like to have an outlet for my thoughts. I run it because it's something I can redesign every few months, trying out whatever style I'm digging at the time. I run it because I enjoy writing and I enjoy photography and I enjoy web design. I run it because it makes me feel part of the community. This site lets me indulge all these pleasures and I don't know what I do without it. I'm not a mould breaker, but for the moment I'm happy to follow. We'll see about breaking some moulds later.
Oh, and I run it because it lets me write a good long post about not having anything to write about.
Speaking of the regular redesign, there's one in the making. Rob's designing me a new logo and I'm going to have a bit of a visual overhaul. It might take a while and I might do it in bits, but it's on it's way.
You bloody Liar!
>I’m on the team for the Web Standards Wiki
That sounds interesting… can I get involved? ahem!
;-)
The ‘why do I blog’ and ‘what to blog about’ questions aren’t rare, but if you have a good reason (which you do), just keep it going like it’s going. Honestly, if people don’t like your content, you don’t want them to be your readers. Or am I missing something here?
Just keep in mind to have family first. Being a dad shouldn’t be too hard…
Being a dad is the hardest job in the world BUT it’s also the very best, nothing, not even web standards beats it.
Even though, as you know you have alienated a percentage of your loyal following by only ever talking about things that are of little or no interest to them. Having said that however I’m still here.
I personally am excited about becoming an ‘auntie’ and of course this will be the first child of my peer group but i don’t necessarily think that on here is where it should be talked about…
Keep on alienating…
Jodey x
Ahem, I’ll just go now…