Three Months Blogging

It is the end of the year already and I am blogging since three months now. So it is time to look back and see what has been good or bad about blogging.

In my first blog post I wrote that I was hoping to find direction quickly. Looking back at the articles it seems web services, social media and netaudio releases have become the focus of attention. Actually that’s not surprising to me. I was interested in those topics for quite some time before starting the blog. Well, even before thinking about a blog.
However Drum and Bass, as mentioned in the welcome post, was hardly featured here. Hey, I even used the words “music, especially drum and bass”. Oh dear! So if anyone was surfing to this blog to read the latest gossip and reviews they were disappointed, I guess.

While there was much interest in those topics before I did not intend this blog becoming a review site for netaudio releases and web services. Though somehow it happened but there are certainly other blogs doing a better job.

I read blogs. Lots of them. I was using a RSS reader, Bloglines it is, long before the blog’s start, albeit not very often. By now it has become an invaluable tool. At the moment I have 145 feeds subscribed. It is madness. I don’t have internet access at work so it is tough reading all those blogs when coming home.
At least I have established a method of scanning articles, not reading each one. Though it still takes about one hour until Bloglines does not show bold text anymore and the real work just follows then: reading more stuff on an interesting topic, listening to new releases, having a shot at new web services,… It is time consuming.
But I don’t want to complain. It is also fun, many people actually write good articles and some bloggers are even inspirational. And I am always surprised how many excellent and useful web applications are out there, worth checking out.

So is anyone reading what I write here? Well, actually there could be more people, a lot more. I don’t want to disclose the numbers here. They are too embarrassing actually. At least there are returning visitors and even several subscribers to the feed although most visitors to the blog come from Google and Technorati.
There are also people who own or work for companies I write about who comment on the blog. I imagine they wouldn’t bother leaving a comment if they thought the blog or the article was crap. I also noticed that at least three reviews of netaudio releases are featured on the labels’ websites. Makes me happy.

All in all the three months could have been much worse. Blogging has been fun so far and I hope it will be in 2007 as well.