the engine house

These last few days I have fallen a little bit quiet and I can put this down to 2 reasons. 1) I have been rather busy in my day to day work and 2) I couldn’t think of anything useful to say.

While I have sat around wondering what the next blog should be I have learnt a couple of things that I thought justified maybe just a quick intermission blog to show I hadn’t fallen off that amazing balcony into the sea. (see ‘about uknetweb’)

The importance of regular new content

Without regular new content on your blog reader figures start to dwindle and before you know it you’re on here speaking to the word processor. I make regular visits to my stats page and have witnessed any figures I was developing disappeared (hopefully momentarily) in the time I have been absent.

If you’re starting on a blog my advice would be that you try and plan your next blog, or at least have an idea about what it might be about, some days in advance.

Don’t just fill the blog with any old junk

I could have probably filled the void in my blogs by ranting on about something, or talking about something else; however, I didn’t want to take my new blog off in strange directions. Why you might ask? Well for a couple of reasons I suppose (are you beginning to see a trend here?): this blog is my chance to share with others my ideas on a particular area and invite interesting discussion from it. If I start to ‘fill in’ with stuff that’s off the mark then the audience I was looking to attract might get bored and run away.

Secondly, I started off as a journalist and realise the importance of the reader. As a writer we have a responsibility to write to that audience. A responsibility to inform, entertain or educate them with content they are likely to appreciate. If we start writing badly or about stuff of no interest to anyone but ourselves are we being fair on that audience?

It’s quite possible that I might be on the wrong track here. Maybe blogs are different and I am needlessly ‘filling in’ just like I said I wouldn’t. I welcome any comments you have on that one.

While I have been away I found the following useful directory of Web 2.0 sites - check it out, you might find something new. click here