writing lots, writing little
May has arrived.
Officially a few days ago, but it really seemed like May in Vancouver today with the warmth, sunshine, and green. And it's been a very intensive few months at work. I'm leading a large website redesign project, have been writing quite a few proposal responses this spring, and am conservatively guessing my word count to be somewhere in the 60,000 to 80,000 word mark.
As such, writing anything of substance on this blog has suffered somewhat. To all of my 10 non-yacht-stalking readers, my apologies.
I have taken up a much smaller form of publishing on the web, with a Tumblr site that I setup last year and decided to dust off in March. I'm using it to capture quotes and ideas from books I'm reading and photos I'm taking. Less of what I'm writing and more of what I'm reading. Not sure it will be much interest to anyone other than myself really, but it places the ideas in time, in context with the images from my everyday life, the passing of the seasons, etc. I like the elegance of the publishing format, the minimal effort required to add something, and the end result. A bit of a scrapbook, really.
I've also taken to posting to Twitter on occasion, still questioning its utility and relevance.
Posting content like that probably isn't helping Twitter further the cause of relevance.
Certainly our recent Tubetastic marketing campaign for ThoughtFarmer has utilized it with a degree of success to communicate with enterprise 2.0 pundits and experts. It's a source of traffic referrals to our site that has grown over the past few months of use.
Of course, good old blog posts about the product, like the one on ReadWriteWeb and this evening's TechCrunch post are better for reach and acquisition. But I've been able to have a few quick exchanges on Twitter that I might not have had otherwise.
So that's that. At some point, when my writing for work wraps up, I'll try to be inspired enough to write something of substance here.
Or, when in doubt, I'll post something about bike racing. Like the fact that World Tuesday Night Championships are starting up tomorrow here in Vancouver or how Cycling Fans Anonymous is the best cycling blog going.
But perhaps it's just as well. As my Tang's Noodle House fortune cookie told me tonight: "Even a brief pause to rest should be worth taking now." Fair enough.
Officially a few days ago, but it really seemed like May in Vancouver today with the warmth, sunshine, and green. And it's been a very intensive few months at work. I'm leading a large website redesign project, have been writing quite a few proposal responses this spring, and am conservatively guessing my word count to be somewhere in the 60,000 to 80,000 word mark.
As such, writing anything of substance on this blog has suffered somewhat. To all of my 10 non-yacht-stalking readers, my apologies.
I have taken up a much smaller form of publishing on the web, with a Tumblr site that I setup last year and decided to dust off in March. I'm using it to capture quotes and ideas from books I'm reading and photos I'm taking. Less of what I'm writing and more of what I'm reading. Not sure it will be much interest to anyone other than myself really, but it places the ideas in time, in context with the images from my everyday life, the passing of the seasons, etc. I like the elegance of the publishing format, the minimal effort required to add something, and the end result. A bit of a scrapbook, really.
I've also taken to posting to Twitter on occasion, still questioning its utility and relevance.
Posting content like that probably isn't helping Twitter further the cause of relevance.
Certainly our recent Tubetastic marketing campaign for ThoughtFarmer has utilized it with a degree of success to communicate with enterprise 2.0 pundits and experts. It's a source of traffic referrals to our site that has grown over the past few months of use.
Of course, good old blog posts about the product, like the one on ReadWriteWeb and this evening's TechCrunch post are better for reach and acquisition. But I've been able to have a few quick exchanges on Twitter that I might not have had otherwise.
So that's that. At some point, when my writing for work wraps up, I'll try to be inspired enough to write something of substance here.
Or, when in doubt, I'll post something about bike racing. Like the fact that World Tuesday Night Championships are starting up tomorrow here in Vancouver or how Cycling Fans Anonymous is the best cycling blog going.
But perhaps it's just as well. As my Tang's Noodle House fortune cookie told me tonight: "Even a brief pause to rest should be worth taking now." Fair enough.
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