Links Are No Substitute For Content

When I signed up for del.icio.us part of my reasoning was that there were often things I’d found which weren’t quite worthy of their own blog post, but were things that were interesting, and which I’d like to keep for future reference. Plus I figured it would at least mean that somthing was posted to the blog whilst I’ve been busy.

No sooner had I started collecting links than I started to get “but my blog will just be full of links” paranoia. So I started bundling links together so that there weren’t as many full posts with the odd link in, or just holding off putting links into del.icio.us until I’d written some content. So much for it helping ease my content famine.

Over the past few months, I seem to have embarked (not deliberately) on a mission to only write longer, more “important” posts; I think, because of a desire to provide better content for my readers. Rather stupid, given that I’m always surprised that I actually have any readers, and also rather self-defeating as the combination of increased demands on my time and longer posts has meant the frequency has dropped somewhat.

There may be other reasons that I could theorise on for far too long (and have in my head whilst taking ages to write this) but I’ll just get to the point: I hereby solemnly swear that I shall endeavour to be less serious and worthy. And hopefully that’ll mean I can post more often, and shorter things as well as long things.

Coming soon, although possibly after the weekend as I’ve got some CDs to burn before Ian and Sam’s wedding on Saturday, an update how the business is going.