Reboot

Time to start blogging again!

After I discovered Twitter, my blogging in general largely fell by the wayside. Really, I think that’s something that’s good about Twitter, when it comes down to it: like a magnet, it draws away much of the content that really had no business being a blog post in the first place. But I digress.

I’ve been watching with admiration as a few of my friends — I’m thinking of Rob Donoghue in paticular — have taken up the habits of deliberate, daily posting. I’m not sure yet if that’s the thing I’m looking to do here, at least not that “aggressively”.  I can’t switch over to a new mode where my blogging becomes as much of a time-demand as the stuff I’m getting paid to do.  But all the same, given how well it’s been working for Rob, something in the same ballpark will work as an initial goal.

Part of the trick I think is that while blogging is suitable to content too big for twitter, that doesn’t mean it should rise up and demand incredibly lengthy posting.  Or as Rob quite nicely put it:

… the big lesson has been that I need to write less. Not less often, but rather, shorter material.

So that’s going to be my initial aim here at Deadly Fredly.  Short subjects, quick snapshots of thought, done as regularly as I can manage. Once I’ve done enough of these that I can get a grip on how often is reasonable (twice a week? three times? once a day Monday to Friday? the daily insanity of my good friends?), I’ll turn that particular emergent property into a policy of practice.

Baby steps, for now. Stay tuned.