Milestone…

by Matt Johnston on June 30, 2008

This month has been productive for me in terms of blogging. I’ve never had reason to blog so much in a month and it’s quite inspiring that I still have half a dozen unfinished drafts which I can roll out over the next few days. I thought I might beat my previous monthly record but really, this has blown it out of the water. I am tempted to aim for 100 posts for the month of June but would I be putting together posts that were killer or filler? I’d never resort to the latter but I have posted over 100 posts when you take into account the other blogs that I write for.

I’d blame Twitter, BarCamp, OpenCoffee and Digital Circle for my increase in output. I’m a lot more inspired these days and can usually find myself with something to write. Saving drafts is the only way to actually keep a record of the things I want to write about even though, due to the ephemeral nature of things, they often expire in terms of relevancy before I get anywhere near them.

I also wonder how much I’d blog or tweet if I was being paid to do it. Hopefully more.

For now, this remains a labour of love – covering the subjects that I am passionate about: inspiring software, mobile content, location services, bedouin strategies, co-working facilities, Cocoa, enterpreneurship, social networking, internet everywhere and everything else that appears in my tag cloud.

Enough ruminating, I have content to write!

{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

Phil June 30, 2008 at 1:11 pm

thats insane. I wanna know where you get the time, or do you just have nothing else to do?

mj June 30, 2008 at 1:12 pm

:) Drafts drafts drafts. By daylight all I need to do is polish and publish.

It’s only 3 a day…

Andy June 30, 2008 at 3:23 pm

I’m heading the same way – I’ve decided to end my “work day” by writing a blog. I’ve a list of about 40 topics I’ve wanted to write about for a while now, finally going to start carving into that.

And for what it’s worth, I love reading what you write. Keep ‘em coming!

Darren June 30, 2008 at 4:55 pm

And not only are you high on quantity, but also quality. I’ve enjoyed reading.

mj June 30, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Thanks, guys, it’s cathartic to write, heartening to hear it’s read.

Mike Cane July 1, 2008 at 7:20 pm

>>>I am tempted to aim for 100 posts for the month of June

Good god, don’t!! I just did my list of Contents for June and hated every frikkin day that had more than 2 posts in it. I started out with 5 a day. I’ve done multiples of that some days.

Yecch!

mj July 1, 2008 at 10:07 pm

:) I deliberately stopped at 99 and saved some drafts.

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