Five Years of Rob May

Rob May is coming up on five years of blogging, as am I, and will soon be turning BusinessPundit over to new and capable hands, while he continues to blog at Coconut Headsets.

He has an excellent post reflecting on his time as a blogger:
How Five Years of Blogging Has Changed Me

Some doesn’t apply to me, but there is much that does.  For instance, I don’t get excessive e-mail.  Seems odd, as you might think that people would send me more or less legitimate stuff in hopes of getting a mention on one or more high PR blogs, even with limited readership.  Being lower profile, I also miss out on most of the dealing with yahoos.  Darn.

We more often talk about how blogging has changed, and it’s then that the point of jealousy comes up.  It’s easy to resent people who were, in most cases, lucky, as being good - which many of the lucky are not - is not the end all to gaining traffic, fame, or revenue should that be a goal.

The friends and family readers problem is both cool and just that, a problem.  We’ve agonized over it repeatedly, and it certainly has changed what we post.

I never thought of blogging as a plus for the resume, until it came time to look for work and people were drawn to that before I even had a resume ready.  Mentioning it was going to be an afterthought, a “just in case” variant, and not even that, originally.  Now I wish I had made more of it that way, or made it more of a side income as it is.

Rob had the problem of too much focus, too specific a topic for his blog, but that was probably good from a resume building perspective.  I didn’t get attention for the general/family blog, but for running CotC.  There has been topical blogging on food and cooking and technology, but not enough or of sufficient prominence.

But I am rambling, and the point is to send you to read Rob’s excellent reflections.

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