August Blog-O-Rama Halfway Point
August 15, 2008 |
Two weeks ago I started the Blog-O-Rama Challenge. So far I’ve actually been able to post some form of new content every single day. Granted, all of it is written a few days prior to it actually posting, but it’s still daily content. In fact, before the Blog-O-Rama began it took nearly three months to see fifteen posts. Since August 1 there have, obviously, been fifteen posts. That’s a big difference.
I’ve noticed a few other big differences that I actually didn’t count on before starting this project. Namely traffic. There has been a large increase in visitors here and in turn, comments left on posts. I guess it shows that new and interesting content breeds activity and conversation. If I cared about trying to make money off this site then that’d be good to know. But I don’t. I’m not undertaking the Blog-O-Rama challenge to pimp my stats or try and become one of the blogging elite, it’s just an interesting result.
Another interesting thing I’ve noticed is that I talk about Twitter an awful lot. Of the first fifteen posts in the Blog-O-Rama, nearly a third of them are carrying the Twitter tag. Considering prior to August 1 I had only tagged three posts with Twitter, that’s a large number. I have also ranted twice. I haven’t ranted in, well, who knows how long (I cleared out the Rants category at some point for some unknown reason). Back in the sites heyday I ranted a lot. It was fun. Perhaps there will be more ranting in the future.
So far the Blog-O-Rama experience has been pretty good. It’s been challenging to come up with interesting topics to cover and fun to actually cover those topics. The second half is going to be much more difficult though. When this posts (I’m writing this on the 10th) I will be out of town for the weekend and will be leaving at the end of the month for PAX. So the challenge will be to create enough content to cover these days while I’m away. But that’s why I’m calling this the Blog-O-Rama Challenge. Alright, enough rambling. I’m going to bed.