Comments on: Spring Cleaning Your Blog http://www.keenerliving.com/spring-cleaning-your-blog A retired professional talks about life, technology, learning Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bruce Keener http://www.keenerliving.com/spring-cleaning-your-blog#comment-33348 Bruce Keener Wed, 06 May 2009 15:46:16 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/?p=1629#comment-33348 Hi Ari, Thank you much for the comment. An interesting perspective, and, to a degree, I share it. But, in my case, there are several posts that are just worthless ... ones where I mention that I have a new site design (several of those when I experimented a lot), ones that apologize for my former server's poor performance, and so on. They add no value, but sometimes people land on them, and bounce right away, leaving with a perhaps sour impression of my blog. It is those posts that I am cleaning out. The ones that I could have said better, but are still relevant nonetheless, get to stay and I get to learn from them, as you say. It would help immensely if I could ever make my mind up whether I just want this to be a personal blog, or a professional blog. It has the flavorings of both. Ultimately, I just want the content to help folks. But, that is too broad of a generalization, so I need to square up better with what sort of posts I really want to write, and resist the temptation to write about everything that interests me. Anyway, I digressed. But, thanks for the comment and for making me think. Hi Ari,
Thank you much for the comment. An interesting perspective, and, to a degree, I share it. But, in my case, there are several posts that are just worthless … ones where I mention that I have a new site design (several of those when I experimented a lot), ones that apologize for my former server’s poor performance, and so on. They add no value, but sometimes people land on them, and bounce right away, leaving with a perhaps sour impression of my blog. It is those posts that I am cleaning out.

The ones that I could have said better, but are still relevant nonetheless, get to stay and I get to learn from them, as you say.

It would help immensely if I could ever make my mind up whether I just want this to be a personal blog, or a professional blog. It has the flavorings of both. Ultimately, I just want the content to help folks. But, that is too broad of a generalization, so I need to square up better with what sort of posts I really want to write, and resist the temptation to write about everything that interests me.

Anyway, I digressed. But, thanks for the comment and for making me think.

]]> By: Ari Herzog http://www.keenerliving.com/spring-cleaning-your-blog#comment-33347 Ari Herzog Wed, 06 May 2009 15:25:43 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/?p=1629#comment-33347 Commending you for the tip, I have mixed thoughts. If you wrote something, why wouldn't you want to keep it, if for no other reason than, for your own posterity and to see how you've matured? Commending you for the tip, I have mixed thoughts. If you wrote something, why wouldn’t you want to keep it, if for no other reason than, for your own posterity and to see how you’ve matured?

]]> By: Bruce Keener http://www.keenerliving.com/spring-cleaning-your-blog#comment-33263 Bruce Keener Mon, 04 May 2009 23:11:35 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/?p=1629#comment-33263 My friend <a href="http://twitter.com/ruudhein" rel="nofollow">RuudHein</a> just mentioned to me on Twitter that there is a plugin that can be very helpful for this: http://bit.ly/oMbA My friend RuudHein just mentioned to me on Twitter that there is a plugin that can be very helpful for this: http://bit.ly/oMbA

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