
According to a recent Seth Godin post (SethHead at top), blogs work when they are based on
Candor
Urgency
Timeliness
Pithiness and
Controversy
(maybe Utility if you want six).
I like those. As for content focus, I am driven to write about .NET Development, placing a definite value on Utility. I also must conclude that any readers of this blog primarily consist of other .NET Developers like myself. The continued focus on .NET is for two reasons: 1) I'm a .NET nerd, and 2) I blogged at http://weblogs.asp.net/dburke for over a year where .NET was understandably the focal issue before setting up shop at http://dbvt.com/blog.
With my own blog, these basic rules with a focus on .NET content still apply. While I might want to talk about today's dog walk along Shelburne Bay (a highlight of my Vermont teleworking day), I can safely assume that very few readers give a shit about today's dog walk. So instead (fortunately), I do have a passion for coding (god, how lame is that?) so I'll continue to write about it. Actually, I'm still buzzed on implementing client read-only access to a Sharepoint 2.0 document library by circumventing Sharepoint and retrieving the binary straight from SQL. Upcoming post, for sure. Its not as cool as walking the dogs along Shelburne Bay on a fall Vermont day though.
Now, how one becomes pithy, I just don't know. Pithy. "Thounds like I'm lithping, doesn't it?"