Let me say first that I'm planning to start a "second season" of the blog, but that I'm still not sure exactly what form it will take.
When I first started out to blog more I had a list of things I thought would be interesting to blog about. I even have a nicely organized file that lists them all. I'll include that below so you can see what I had been thinking about before I started.
| Idea | Date Added | Date Published |
| Intro | 06/08/10 | 01/08/11 |
| Windows Shutdown | 06/08/10 | - |
| Thesis | 06/08/10 | - |
| We are all going to live in public | 06/08/10 | - |
| Thesis Wordle | 06/08/10 | - |
| Ad incentives (omgpop vs tetrisfriends) | 06/08/10 | - |
| Why everyone should be a polymath | 12/08/10 | - |
| Not all collections are created equal | 12/08/10 | - |
| Clean Desktop | 13/08/10 | - |
| Nerd Fighting / Proactive Nerds | 14/08/10 | - |
| My Pockets | 14/08/10 | - |
| Black book ToDo List | 14/08/10 | - |
| Enjoying Wear | 14/08/10 | - |
| Pomplamoose Videos expertise in sound crafting | 15/08/10 | - |
| Closet | 28/08/10 | - |
| Water Bottle Spigot | 28/08/10 | - |
| Garfield / Adding more to the given story | 18/11/10 | - |
| I don't really like Harry Potter | 18/11/10 | - |
| I don't really like Robots | 17/12/10 | - |
| Fan Chants at Hitmen | 31/01/11 | - |
| Peanut butter pizza tutorial (Video) | 03/06/11 | - |
| "Future" - (Corning Glass) (via Terry O'Riley) | 03/06/11 | - |
| Derek K. Miller | 31/07/11 | 13/09/11 |
By far the biggest reason is that the me of 2010 just doesn't have the same concerns that me of today does. So, while I could write most of these posts still, I'm not sure I'd feel the same push I would have had I not been procrastinating back in 2010. A few of these I have no idea what I was supposed to talk about (Closet? - mine should be be cleaner but what was my point, Garfield? - I don't even know) and some I don't really have anything to say on the topic (Harry Potter, Robots and Hitmen Chants). A few actually require me to learn new skills (how hard should it be to mock up Windows Shutdown Screens? damn hard if you aren't trained in it, it turns out).
Some of them may still be interesting, but I don't know that they match as well with the things I'm thinking about now, nor the things I'd like to focus on. Over all, at the moment, I feel that this blog should support all the other projects that I'm working on (and yes I know I'm not doing much right now, that'll be followed up on in another post). That's why I've been writing (a bit) about video games since at the moment I would like to focus more on learning to be a good developer of video games.
July is really the first month in which I've gotten any traction at all blogging, and that mostly through my Favorite YouTube Videos series. While the YouTube series is not exactly an amazingly deep set of posts, they are fun to write (and hopefully fun to read) and they give me some practice in getting things written and sent out. Given that my career requires (for the next 3 years at least) that I get better at writing and and presenting my work, any practice I can get doing this seems like a good thing.
With a "year" of blogging in hand, I feel excited to keep going (and actually more excited having written this post). As I mentioned, I would like to focus more on blogging about things that support the other projects I'm doing. This means in the short term I'm going to keep posting thoughts about different video games as a primary topic, but I'll keep posting about anything that I think is interesting and slowly flooding everyone with the videos I've favorited on YouTube (incidentally that should take about a year to get caught up on).
As I've said before I think that there should be a pre-determined end date for any project. I'm calling this the second season of the blog and it will run from now until August 1, 2013.
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