If you’ve visited my blog anytime over the last few years you know that I’ve gone through a LOT of designs. I started out on Blogger before moving to WordPress in college. This post is intended to introduce you to the resources that I use for hosting and designing my blog.
Good question. It’s something I’ve been trying to figure out for a while now and I’ve yet to really pin it down. I have so many things I want to write about:
personal
technology
church/worship/visual worship/
politics
reactions to things
things with no category
Right now I’m participating in a series of blogs based on a list of twenty topics. This will provide one or two posts a week for a while. I’d love to start writing more than just once a week, so I’m hoping this series gets me started. And I’m hoping having specific categories will get me started in the right direction. Thanks John Saddington (Tentblogger) for the inspiration to narrow my focus.
I’m sure this won’t be an easy process. If you look back my post history there are massive gaps in my dedication to this blog. But by starting off following a series of pre-determined ideas, and with some extra effort to develop focused categories, I think I can do this.
Gary Molander (@garymo) is someone I’ve never met, never seen, and until about 5 minutes, never visited his blog. But I’ve seen his name on Twitter a lot lately. So when a friend of mine posted on her blog about his “20 Topics I Wish You’d Write About“, I was intrigued. It’s a new year, I have a new blog design, and some new goals for my blog. I figured “hey, it’s a list of 20 topics that someone who is highly respected wrote, let’s check this out, maybe I can glean 20 blog posts out of this. This is his list:
The intersection of art and leadership.
Let me introduce you to my hero.
The best community of people I know.
The most difficult thing about working at a church.
My prayer for my children.
How I reward our best customers/clients.
What I do when I’m frustrated.
What I do when I’m depressed.
How God continues to save me.
Why church is relevant for me.
Why church is irrelevant for me.
The day I knew God was real.
How I drive traffic to my blogsite.
How I handle negative people (on my blog, in my life, in my family).
Why some people struggle with being generous.
The best leadership style I know of.
How to create a grateful attitude in your children.
The single event that transformed me the most.
What the Kingdom of God really looks like.
Why I needed to apologize.
From what I can gather, this list doesn’t have to be responded to in order. So starting next Monday, I’m going to respond to one of these questions every Monday. I’m kind of excited about this. There are some great questions in this list and I can’t wait to start exploring them. I have a feeling some of my own responses will surprise me.
In 2010 I wrote 16 posts and added 10 pages to this blog, with 151 attachments in total.
The number of posts in each month:
| January: | 1 (6.25%) |
| February: | 1 (6.25%) |
| April: | 1 (6.25%) |
| May: | 2 (12.5%) |
| June: | 1 (6.25%) |
| July: | 1 (6.25%) |
| August: | 3 (18.75%) |
| September: | 1 (6.25%) |
| October: | 1 (6.25%) |
| December: | 17 (106.25%) |
The number of posts in each day of week:
| Sunday: | 3 (18.75%) |
| Monday: | 2 (12.5%) |
| Tuesday: | 7 (43.75%) |
| Wednesday: | 1 (6.25%) |
| Thursday: | 2 (12.5%) |
| Friday: | 4 (25%) |
| Saturday: | 10 (62.5%) |
At what hours I publish new posts:
| 0: | 5 (31.25%) |
| 1: | 5 (31.25%) |
| 6: | 1 (6.25%) |
| 7: | 1 (6.25%) |
| 8: | 1 (6.25%) |
| 15: | 2 (12.5%) |
| 16: | 2 (12.5%) |
| 18: | 2 (12.5%) |
| 21: | 3 (18.75%) |
| 22: | 2 (12.5%) |
| 23: | 5 (31.25%) |
My first official blog on blogger (well, I’m returning to Blogger after a hiatus, but under a different name). I’ve decided to leave Myspace and return to a blog-only website. I feel that Blogger is a better medium to post in. I will still be writing my occasional non-sequitur blogs, but I am going to try to improve the quality of my writing as well as the content of my writing. Myspace isn’t a place that I feel I can do either of those. So with that, I will be shutting down my Myspace in a few days following this post.
With that being said, I will be importing between 60 and 70 blogs back into my Blogger account before writing anything new here. They are all ones I have written on Myspace and if you are following my writing to here, you’ve read them already.
