ChoiceBlogger?

“You gotta focus on what’s working best,” R. replied after I mentioned to him I ponder stopping this blog – the reason being I can’t find the time to post much. I also had to realize it’s hard to get a readership when the blog topic changes every month, and it’s hard to write something meaningful when you can’t talk about your expertise. Having to learn details of a new topic is fun, but also time-consuming, and trying to write a meaningful post can take a week (of reading a book, of trying to make an interview, and so on). Creating a mere link blog works, but is also less rewarding to read. A weekly posting frequency on the other hand destroys the idea of this blog, as topics change every month (I feel e.g. my German “bad service” blog works OK with a much more rare posting frequency). My Werther palimpsest blog, on the other hand, had its ending planned from the start, even though it ended sooner than expected.

This year, I’m hoping to take blogging full-time and I’m focussing my energies on Google Blogoscoped. For ChoiceBlogger for now, this means good-bye... and thanks to everyone who supported this experiment.

Philipp Lenssen on Friday, Apr 28 2006 reg. Famous Photos.