- How and Why
- How to benefit from blogging
- How to be consistent with posting
In my mind, the key to success and blogging is to be totally selfish in its planning and execution.
Blogging is a personal activity/journey that you allow the public to be a part of. What I mean by this is that the main audience for your blog should be YOU. My blog is a place where I take notes and occasionally try to talk about a more touchy-feely topics or issues. These notes are notes that I'm ok with sharing publicly. I also keep a private blog (but really more notes/cheat-sheet think RTFM...I use MDwiki) because you don't need to give everyone all your tricks and secrets. If you show up for a new job and everyone knows your tricks because you've shared them publicly (because you need attention from strangers) what value are you bringing to your employer?
The benefit to blogging is note taking. I'm a HUGE proponent of taking notes and I'd chalk a lot of my success up to taking copious notes. When I figure out how to mess with technology X, I take notes on it. As a consultant, it may be months or years before I see it again. Having notes to go back to saves time and stress. It also allows me to help people on my team in the event they run into it while I am on a different project.
How/Platforms: I use Blogger because I don't want to secure/worry about my blogging platform. This blog was on Drupal for a bit and some jerk person decided to make an example of the blog's lack of updates publicly at BlackHat (appreciate the heads up...#totallynotbitter). With Blogger, hosted WordPress, or some other hosted platform I'm offloading the risk and I don't have to worry about keeping up with patches.
Consistently posting. No idea. It's clear I have lost the ability to consistently post. I do sometimes queue up a bunch of posts and schedule their posting. I've found it was easier to find things to blog about when I was consulting since I had a different client every week so it would be difficult to tie a vulnerability back to any particular client. Now that I work for a company, if I'm talking about some vulnerability or exploit I used there is a good chance I used it for work; potentially exposing the company to risk.
Length. No one reads long posts. Break long posts into separate logical posts even if you choose to post them at the same time.
Length. No one reads long posts. Break long posts into separate logical posts even if you choose to post them at the same time.
Also see the "On Social Media" post (Todo)
Also
https://www.j4vv4d.com/a-blog-about-blogging-with-bloggers/
Also see this timely tweet by Robin Wood
https://twitter.com/digininja/status/900340713669279745
Also
https://www.j4vv4d.com/a-blog-about-blogging-with-bloggers/
Also see this timely tweet by Robin Wood
https://twitter.com/digininja/status/900340713669279745
Allow me to summarize:
ReplyDeleteBlogs are Text-based Selfies. Tweets are Text-based Selfies that are limited to 1120 bytes.
Counterpoint: How and Why to Comment on Blogs instead of Blog
aka How to benefit from Comment-only Streams
Q: How does this work? How does one benefit from commenting on other's blog posts?
A: It does not work. You don't benefit. The blog poster benefits from your comments. You are organizing their information for them, but at your expense of time and resources. Additionally, you have no idea where your comments go. Worst of all, comments are usually (as is the case on carnal0wnage) moderated so it is up to the blog owner (after he or she reads your post, if he or she ever does) to allow it to publish through.
Second Counterpoint: Everyone reads long rants and tirades
aka how to post 14-paragraph entries on Facebook and respond to your own comments 40 times per year every year going back several years
Q: Why do you do this, dre? What is wrong with you?
A: The real question is... what is RIGHT with me?
Interesting post! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI have two questions regarding your post:
- How do you differentiate what is going into your blog, your personal notes or stuff that you do not need to note down at all?
- Do you use a WYSIWYG editor for markdown? If yes, which one?
Markus
Markus,
ReplyDeletethere is almost nothing in the do not need to write down category. as far as the other 2, its really a *feeling* on if i want to share something more broadly mixed with how much public attention i currently need to reassure my personal feelings of self-worth
i use blogger's editor for posts