A while ago I wrote that the secret to blogging was to do a little, often. However it’s not quite been a mantra I lived by. Twitter has come along and made it even easier and for many posts bite sized chunks may be all that’s needed, however it’s not often that somebody makes significant money through blogging or Tweeting.

I then discovered Facebook, after keeping clear of it for a long while, and decided that the future of blogging lay in apps. Lots of short updates on many things. To some degree I still think it is, but I think there needs to be a dedicated CMS to such a thing, where you simply go into a back end and update your day, with where you’ve been and what you’ve done. I knowsome people manage to do that without a structured CMS but I think a gap is there for those that want to blog, but can never think of something to write about.

Third part of blogging is to write something people want to read. Some popular blogs are just about that person’s life, however I’m socially aloof and don’t engage with others in that sense. What I would read about is that person’s thoughts on various topics that has engaged them during the day. So I don’t care if work was shit and allyou want to do is hit the pub, however I would care if you read something in the paper and put your own thoughts on the matter down.

To that end I think I’m going to start blogging much more properly. Every time something interests me I’ll make a note of it and then write it up after work that day before I go home. I fully believe that if one person feels one way about something (in this instance about what people would like to read) then there are others out there and a market can be created for it.

So, I’m going to write up a piece on Xbox Achievements next, because it’s annoys me how crappy some achievements are. Then I’ll write up numerous science related pieces, perhaps give my views on some movies I’ve watched or games played, but what I’m not intending doing is just giving a chronicle of my life any more. Well, not that I wrote often enough anyway.