Little Book of Blog – Some Blogging Practices

Lisa Williams @ cadence90.com writes in her “Little Book of Blog” some practices re blogging. I need to read through all of them but the one that caught my attention was Blog what’s useful to you, be glad when it is useful for others: Or, Why I Blog My Watch Instructions.

I blog for myself, but I’m always gratified when someone finds something that I put on my weblog entertaining or useful.

Funny example — I always type in the instructions to my inexpensive digital watches into my weblog. I find it useful to be able to just search for them if I need them. But every time the clocks change for Daylight Savings Time, I get comments on those entries from people finding that page by Googling their watch’s model number. Love that!

I see most of my blog posts as serving as my memory. The same way I carry my Tungsten T3 Palm PDA with me and call it my brain, my blog serves as my memory. That I can share my memories with others is a side benefit. I have an internal blog at our office that is our Knowledge Base and in which we keep all of our company procedures, manuals, phone numbers, software installation instructions, etc.

Lisa picks up this same idea in her article Backing up my soul

“In my blog I create the immortal part of my immortal soul and do so in a humble, human way, like a castaway putting a message in a bottle. Because, unfortunately, the rest of me cannot be backed up.”