I suppose, depending upon your point of view, we are either quickly
approaching the Mayan apocalypse or it's a new year and new resolutions.
A time for reflection or a time for resolutions. Or, in my case, a time
for both reflection and resolution as well as writing up a new blog
entry - a task with which I've been seemingly lax as of late. I average
may a post or two a month lately, and sometimes even that is a bit of a
stretch. It's not that I lack for any number of topics upon which to
write, more often it is the time and the desire to do so (at the same
time).
However, part of it has also been some reflection on my part
about the purpose of this blog. Unfortunately (or even fortunately,
depending upon one's point of view), I have a variety of interests and
that means that many of my posts are all across the board in terms of
subject matter. Politics, history, China, philosophy, technology, social
commentary, international relations, science and anything else in
between that happens to catch my eye/ear is potential fodder. But that
seems to clog up this blog and render it interesting to only a few
people at any given time. To make it worse, I would not classify myself
as an expert in any given matter. Instead, I have some knowledge on a
great number of subjects that allows me to sometimes see things through a
very different perspective than others but one that can occasionally be
moot to the subject itself.
So I've been pondering if perhaps I should be more focused in
this blog - or to perhaps create an entirely new blog or series of blogs
to cover each of my varied interests. The problem with that is that I
will likely update those even less frequently than I update this one and
that would make me into a rather poor (or, in my case, poorer) blogger.
Besides, I already blog occasionally on the technical forum LessThanDot
(disclaimer, I am one of the owners of that site) though I've not done
anything there in a while (though I have one or two that I am in the
midst of putting down on paper in order to post), either. And while that
should handle at least one of my passions (technology), I can't go looking
for others to do the rest of my various ideas (well, ok, I could do
guest posts on SeeingRedInChina - the only blog I read with any real
regularity and the best China-related blog in my very humble opinion) so
I wonder if anyone can offer suggestions or ideas on how I should
approach this conundrum.
And thus ends my reflection for now. As for resolution, writing
more is at the top of the list and I guess this post is a good start. So
now my new year (well, ok a little over two weeks into it) is off to
its proper start and hopefully will continue to roll on at a good clip.
Oh, and just noticed that this is my 100th blog post. Woohoo! Over the course of the last 2 1/2 years I've managed 100 posts. I'm not going to do the math average for that number since I'm pretty sure it's pathetic. But that's what resolutions are for! :-)
