Blogs
I love to blog and I have started quite a few blogs since they burst onto the scene as an internet phenomenon a couple of years ago. I blog about my illustration work. I blog about my experiences as an English Teacher and webmaster. I blog about learning German. I blog about movies and plays and other cultural stuff and I even had the idea of running an online comic book as a blog. The big problem for me is that I am a bit like Mr. Toad. Each new blog is going to be the one I dedicate my life to and write a post every day for, but then a new idea crosses my mind and I end up starting a new blog to pursue it.
Another problem is that I don't like the usual blog layout. You go to a blog homepage and see maybe three articles or posts and the rest of the site is hidden in a side bar called archives. If you mess with this layout, all of a sudden it isn't a blog anymore, it's a website. It seems to suit more throwaway subjects. Short shelf life information that it doesn't matter if no one digs in the archives to find it because they wouldn't be interested in what they found anyway.
I love to blog, but I've quit, and I now treat my main site as a kind of blog. The difference is that I get to organise my content and nothing is hidden away in an archive like some old forgotten blog post. All my pages are just a couple of clicks away from the homepage where surfers and Google spiders alike can find them.