An experiment in aimless blogging

For the last couple of years, I've been blogging away in several different places, trying to maintain the idea that a blog is something like a magazine and should have a specific topic. The idea was that a blog should be on point, focused.

It occurs to me that this might be true, but it also might not be true. It sounds good. But a lot of things that sound right don't hold up to the rigors of real life, in the trenches so to speak. On the one hand, they say that Content is King. They say Publish or Perish. They say, especially in web circles, that one should get your content up as quickly as possible. The perfect is the enemy of the good. The 90% solution. And so forth.

On the other hand, I don't particularly like the "vanity blog". There are several blogs I follow for one topic, and get annoyed when other topics crop in. So, I don't know. I'm torn.

I've decided to recycle my old mainstay smithdahl.com. For a long time now it's been just one simple page with contact information -- a so-called digital business card. But, now I'm thinking that I'll use it for this test. I'll post all the stray ideas I have, all the random content that doesn't fit somewhere obvious, here. And we'll see. I'm not confident that I'll end up with something useful in the end. But, then at least I'll know for sure.