Hi HN. I have a dilemma!
I would really like to write a blog. Especially after a recent article that made it to the frontpage, which advocated writing a blog even if no one is reading. I love writing, I do it all the time, but in terms of blogging I have one big problem: Too many interests!
If I had one blog, its subject matter would span video games, fencing, martial arts, armchair philosophy, ruby, python, Android & iPhone development, vim tips, some of my own illustration, general software development, personal finance, microfiction, graphic design and Photoshop tips. Now, I know we're supposed to write a blog even if no one is going to read it, because it is its own reward; but I feel like there really isn't a point to publishing a blog unless you think someone out there is going to visit regularly. Otherwise, there just isn't a reason to make it public--right?
My question to you fine ladies and gentlemen is: What should I do? "Wing it" and put up an interdisciplinary blog, trusting that it'll get an appropriate audience (whether an audience of ten or ten thousand)? Create a whole bunch of blogs and update each of them less frequently? I haven't spent too much time fretting over this, because it's probably more important to actually get things done, but that frontpage article last week inspired me to really find a solution, because it really bugs me when I write something and have no place to put it.
What do you think?
Why does it have to be "regularly"? What would be wrong, in your eyes, to trust in Google and word of mouth to steer readers to your blog by issue instead. If there is a noticeable line through all your articles ("the voice") and people like it, they may even read on topics they were not originally interested in, and eventually subscribe to it, but why do you feel this is necessary to begin with?
Also, don't underestimate the degree to which interests are correlated. Off your supposedly varied list of interests, for example, there are only three that don't match mine.