Stephan Miller

1 | Kostas Panagias

December 9th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

I am a little skeptical about that. If you start too many blogs it will be impossible to catch up with all! If you start a blog each time you study a new subject, when you finish that subject the respective blog will most likely “die”. Out of my experience I would say that having too many irons into fire is not only time-consuming but also makes someone frustrated: I used to had too many blogs; one blog for each topic and then I realized that it was impossible to update them all. So, I just stick with one and drop the others. The range of topics is inevitably wider but this is not necessarily bad; all people have many aspects and many interests so there could be many subtopics within a broad-general topic.

Anyway, if you have already decided to do so, I don’t want to deter you from doing it. However, I think you should: make a careful plan that will take into account regular posts in every blog you maintain, have a long-term vision and commitment and be consistent. Good luck with your plans!

2 | Stephan Miller

December 10th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

I am not really suggesting to start a blog with each new subject you study. But with each new subject you study and continue to use.

I have only been married with kids for three years. This added to my need to study list immensely. I could read books and let the information leave my mind just as quickly as it came in or I could write about it.

Dealing with schools, investments, owning a home, and all the rest will not be stuff that I will just lose interest in. They are necessary info now.

In college, you don’t have only one class you have to write essays for either. I may just be a multitasker to the max though, considering I wrote this while I have a full time job and a family.

3 | Djakson Cleber

December 13th, 2007 at 3:11 am

You’re right. The best way to learn something is to write about it.
You don’t have to come up with 1 new blog every month, you can do with 2 every 6 months. Give them the proper attention like, SEO, design and content. It’s better to have 2 or 3 blogs that generate some revenue than 6 or 7 that don’t.

4 | Stephan Miller

December 13th, 2007 at 7:29 am

Yeah, the one month schedule is not going to work for me. 2 every six months is more like it. Plus I tend to add things to a blog that make people come back when posts aren’t that frequent. This site still got traffic through dry spells because of my resource lists.
I figure a blog can be more than a blog. Write your posts but add some things that make people want to come back for more. There are some sites I have had bookmarked for three years now because of some simple tool that saved me time. Other sites and downloadable software came along to compete with my bookmark, but I kept it because it worked.
Most bloggers I run into seem to not think long term. Get the newest info the fastest and beat everyone else to it is their motto. I do my share of this, but I still like to add long term value.