How Harmful is Multi Blog Blogging?
I was planning to post this as a comment here. (Corey suggests to STOP blogging!?) But it was better to post it as a blog post I thought. It’s about why blogging at multiple places, just because they belong to different categories, isn’t always a good idea.
If you are simultaneously blogging on multiple blogs (read as more than three), then you better stop. Being a jack of all trades just isn’t enough. Make sure you a master in at least one.
There have been successful bloggers (like Darren of problogger), who after succeeding in their first blog, went on to make more. But they made sure that they enjoyed blogging on those topics.
It’s better to blog based on a particular niche. So when you have a galore of ideas and they are seem irrelevant, then you feel like creating a new blog for that niche. Good idea, but sorry it will leave you burnt out early.
Be a master of integration. I started with a free blog where I penned down everything. Then I published posts relating to the web, computers and Linux. Typical tech related stuffs. And for general topics and philosophy I started several other blogs. But multiple blogs just didn’t work. I kept to the tech blog and posted only tech stuffs.
Soon I put a stop. But so many thoughts and I wanted to vent them out. I restarted from scratch, this time on a self hosted blog. And though initially I blogged everything, I kept to tech stuffs (wp tips, hacks, linux, social media, tech that caught my interest and made me curious). I carefully created categories (but still am not satisfied), so that it helps my audience to reach my content easily.
But then I felt that I should pen down my thoughts about life, the people around, the government, the education system etc, and that’s when Posterous came to my needs. It was easy to post by sending emails. It was a new and interesting concept. I have started blogging at Posterous, my personal blog, This ‘n’ That. The place where I vent out the other side of my thoughts.
