My goal at the start of this year 2023 was to post on average one new blog post a day.
I'm behind. So you might see a lot of pictures posted. They're not bad pictures!
A fun thing is that the blog archive feed located to the right serves as a leaderboard.
I realize I failed to mention my goal before I started posting about the optimizations to my process in support of that goal (skipping labels, fewer hyperlinks).
My goal is to post a new entry every day during 2023.
Well, more likely to post a new entry every day on average during 2023.
Here's a guy who posts every day: Seth Godin.
I guess he's a marketing guy? Somehow he comes up with these pithy posts every single day. I imagine he has some stored up in case he misses a day.
He had a cameo on the TV show Billions. Seth's blog was recommended to me by KM (formerly KB).
One trick I have in my back pocket is that if on a day where posting seems like too much work then I'll just dig through my 50,000 photos using Google search and just post a picture and call it a day.
Oh - it's not 2023 yet? Yeah, I thought I better get a running start and work out the bugs in my process.
As a rule, I think it is beneficial for people to get credit for their work and ideas.
But the current Internet is not necessarily a friendly place and privacy is increasingly important. (That is one of the benefits of micro-blogging on Facebook - limited reach.)
So as I blog I will frequently refer to people by their initials rather than their full names.
Another feature of blogging on Blogger that I won't be using: labels. It just takes too much time. One reason I switched to making little blogs or notes on Facebook is that I didn't worry about any of that.
Simplification FTW!
Back when I blogged a lot I was quite proud of all the links I would put into my posts. "See, I'm talking about a real thing! Just follow that link!" Now, with over a thousand really old posts in this blog, many posts have links are that broken. So mostly I'm dropping the effort to put in hyperlinks unless it is a link likely to survive the decades (like a link to Wikipedia). As it is, if you use Chrome, you can highlight a term, right-click, and choose "Search Google". That's a good enough link substitute.
