Why am I blogging?

This blog has been live for the last 2 years (it’s actually turning 2 next week) and I’ve been more or less active, posting new articles, trying to keep up with new events and trends and sometimes sprinkling in some personal posts. The blog has had it’s up and downs and sometimes I was successful with my publishings, especially in the more technical corner: And I think I can be pretty proud of most of them. Then again others weren’t as successful as I thought they might be… The problem is that after two years I’m starting to ask myself what the point in this is, take it as a mid life crisis for bloggers, blogging takes a lot of time, especially when you focus on technical articles and tutorials like I prefer to do, and I don’t have that time anymore. Maybe it will get better after the current semester, but the question is do I really want to go on and blog? Blogging has become some sort of obbligation, something I have to force myself into, it’s supposed to be fun, but as it is right now it isn’t. It’s more of a work.
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2 Responses to “Why am I blogging?”

  1. Jadon  on November 13th, 2007

    You aren’t alone. I get something out of your blog posts every now and again as one of your regular subscribers. Building community is difficult.

    To keep it fun, there has to be some interaction… some common mission.

    It is difficult for me to find people who are both like minded and like purposed. We all come at these problems with our own biases, until someone is clearly ahead on some aspect where we can all contribute.

    My next move is to release a hardware platform, then to find software partners for creating a true open web experience. Or, I could get bored and lose my way. :)

    I hope you keep or find your way.

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  2. Christian Decker  on November 13th, 2007

    Thanks a lot for your encouraging words. I will probably not stop blogging after all because it gives me so much satisfaction to see where my work ends up sometimes. Actually one of the developers of ESPN.com has used part of my Ajax Tutorial in the site, pretty exciting ^^

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