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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Brad Smith's blog : blogging</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/brsmith/archive/tags/blogging/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: blogging</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>What to blog??</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/brsmith/archive/2006/10/04/What-to-blog_3F003F00_.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:43:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:788774</guid><dc:creator>brsmith</dc:creator><slash:comments>5</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/brsmith/comments/788774.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/brsmith/commentrss.aspx?PostID=788774</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;I’ve been trying to figure out what to blog.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Like everyone else in the world I can’t blog about confidential information I’m privy to from my employer and/or clients.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;The problem is that THIS content makes up about 90% of what I know about and deal with on a day to day basis.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;That leaves things that are too personal or too opinionated to publish publicly.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;I also want to avoid just blogging the bloggers…. Although this may be perfectly valid content for some of the people who read my blog, because apparently they don’t really read blogs. I’m special.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Thanks guys! &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"&gt;J&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;The amount of interesting info I come across each day is usually pretty big.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;So perhaps I can just focus on something which I alluded to in &lt;A title="Brad's first blog post" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brsmith/archive/2006/10/03/first-post.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#800080&gt;my first blog post&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Perhaps I’ll just record some nuggets of information I find which I will probably like to refer to later…. like my &lt;A title="Enterprise Search Architecture for MOSS 2007 (Beta)" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brsmith/archive/2006/10/04/Enterprise-Search-Architecture-with-MOSS-2007-_2800_Beta_2900_.aspx"&gt;second&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A title="Australian TFS mailing list" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brsmith/archive/2006/10/04/Australian-TFS-mailing-list-.aspx"&gt;third&lt;/A&gt; blog posts.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;This appears to be popular amongst my tiny crowd of readers.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;If only they’d leave more comments so I “look” popular! &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"&gt;J&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"&gt;(Adam … Jo… )&lt;/I&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;I’m not doing a lot at the moment with work.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;So, I imagine my pool of bloggable content will get larger once I get busier out on-site.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;The &lt;A href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/03/01/1014704999612.html"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#800080&gt;evangelist guys&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; are just blogging machines and there is no way I’ll reach the same level of output as &lt;A title="Frank Arrigo" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/frankarr/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#800080&gt;Frank Arrigo&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; or &lt;A title="David Lemphers" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/davidlem"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#800080&gt;David Lemphers&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; … but hopefully the quality will be just as good (to my tiny crowd of readers). &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"&gt;J&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=788774" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/brsmith/archive/tags/geek/default.aspx">geek</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/brsmith/archive/tags/blogging/default.aspx">blogging</category></item></channel></rss>