Over on the #RPG blog Once More Unto The Breach! the author asks: why did you start your blogs? I answered:
I got myself a website when I started running a play by email game back in 1994 or 1995. That was before Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Netscape: Mosaic was the browser and Geocities was the web service provider people used. I started the site because I wanted to build trust between myself and my players. Much later I discovered wikis and started writing on Meatball Wiki. Again, the question of trusting people, real names versus weirdo nicknames, etc. came up. We derided blogs as the inferior solution to wikis. Some of us started maintaining a “diary page” on which we posted stuff that didn’t belong onto a real wiki page. I moved my own homepage from Geocities to a real wiki. And as I kept updating my diary page I started realizing that what I was in fact doing was keeping a blog. I finally decided to go all the way and do “real” blogging on my wiki. The main point has remained the same: build trust between myself and the people I want to interact with online, whether it is Free Software I am contributing to, people I game with, family I want to keep in touch with, or ideas I wanted to write down for my future self.
There’s a bit more information on the Alex Schroeder page. 😄
I guess if the point is building trust, then a mix of all sorts of topics is appropriate. It shows that I am a real person. The drawback is that people only interested in a single topic can’t just subscribe to the entire feed. They need to focus on a tag or category.
I hope it works as intended. 😄
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