Rashid: That’s good to hear! I enjoy your blog a lot and I hope you’ll be around for a long time still. Thanks for the support, and I’m looking forward to your new posts!

Reko: I guess it all boils down to what you want from your blog. If you want to use your blog as a kind of an online diary, then I agree with you.

My wife and I have a blog like that (www.oivalaine.net) which is mostly dedicated to our son but also has stories about our lives in general. I have been surprised to notice that that blog gets about 100 daily visitors because it’s a blog that we mainly created for ourselves.

However, with this blog I have different goals, and thus my methods also need to be a bit different. This blog is about sharing my thoughts with lots of people and also positioning myself as a “real” writer. That’s why with this blog I try to keep up a consistent pace of new articles coming out (hopefully with a consistent quality as well) and constantly find new readers.

Then as my reader base grows I hope to get freelance writing (blogging, copy writing, etc.) gigs from people who know me through my blog.

As you see, to me the function of this blog is something between a hobby and a job. The passion of a hobby definitely needs to be there but still I also see it as a side job, and therefore am willing to actually “work” on it too.

That’s something that I guess each blogger needs to decide for themselves: how “professional” they want to go, and whether they want to keep blogging as a great hobby or make into a “job”.

Thanks for the great thoughts, Reko – and I’ll make sure to pop by your desk later today ;)

Amrit: I’m sure someone noticed. But good luck with your “second coming” :)

Lynoure: Yeah, I read it. It was OK, but kind of shallow.

I can basically summarize the book in just a sentence: Work half of the day for your employer and the second half on your own businesses. The first half should be really efficient so that you get as much done as before so no one will notice that you aren’t really working the whole day ;)

To me that’s an interesting thought, but maybe a bit too extreme to try out ;) That’s why I enjoyed the blog actually more than the book.

His blog entry about self respect made me a bit sad. My skills nor talents get much use currently.

Then again, I’d imagine if someone is primarily blogging because he feels like he has important things to say and gathers a crowd of readers (like I’d imagine this blog is doing), then obviously the readers become a much more important aspect in the whole blogging. But it does come with a baggage. Miss your blogging schedule for a while, have unnannounced pauses, drop the quality and style of your blog posts – people will move on and forget the blog.

So it’s definitely a double-edged sword. I’ve seen loads and loads of promising bloggers burning out and quitting just due to it not being fun anymore and feeling more like a job than a hobby. For me it is and has been a hobby, a way to keep a sort of weird diary for myself and also slightly improve my writing. And that reminds me of something, so pop up to me at the office and I’ll show you something that you might find interesting ;-)

It’s quite hard to keep it up and thats why we all look up to you for doing such a good job at writing quality articles day after day.

But I promise i’m not missing in action – so if you consider writing about me or how i’ve slowed down my posts dont!! i’m coming back, and strong i promise.

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