05.02.2007 ~ Blogging for love, not kudos
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Wha? Blog? About work? Me? Pornstars don't even do that! For some reason, I'm being asked more and more if I blog about my weekly nine to five. This line of questioning is typically followed by "all the best web designers do it" and I'm typically left thinking something along the lines of "I wish I was a web designer - then I could blog like the best web designers do!".
Queries for the rational behind the question usually yield something in the region of "perspective clients and employers will see you're really passionate about your job, want to harness that passion and you'll get some greens".
And I have to concede ... it is a very good point!
Tech_Guy == Tech_Blog;
A quick gander around at Ireland's tech blogging community points to a lot very smart people posting on a lot of very smart tech related issues. One can only imagine the mass of PR/HR brownie points being earned as they evangelise, fantasise, criticise and hypostasise. Fair deuce! So... I love my work, I have one of those new fangled web based log thingies and a kudos generating bandwagon exists ... why aren't I jumping onboard?
Tech_Guy != Tech_Blog;
It's not that I don't have anything to say (anyone who knows me will be slowly nodding right now and wishing they were elsewhere), I will occasionally rant about web dev related issues (old 'web2.0' and 'my favourite website in the world' spring to mind) and I do love keeping a finger on the pulse of the industry. But I've learned a long time ago that you can keep something objectively interesting by frequently shifting focus.
Lets just forget for a moment that a lot of what I do has an nda or a coming soon attached. So rather than document and debate some new css technique that I'll be using for the next number of years, I get excited and blog about various non-work items, in the process losing some potential kudos. Wasteful? Perhaps! And they don't always elude the various inspirations I get from these seemingly random and unrelated items. Sometimes it's a mood, a colour or an idea. Other times its just the translation of a passion from something I've enjoyed transferred back into my work.
Am I missing out on impressing potential clients/employers? Definitely! Does the fact that I don't blog about work mean I'm not passionate about what I do? Definitely not! Am I grateful I can channel a passion from task to task? Absolutely!
(you can tell by the ignorance displayed in this post that I'm terrible with first impressions, speed dating, and any form of sales! ;)