Comments on: Is tech blogging for me?

By: marcelo

marcelo — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:55:52 +0000

Blog on kid… There are a few of us that do want the tech db advice, I for one would read both blogs, I’m a manager (yes I hate people too, ‘users’ to be precise,, specially on Mondays and Fridays) but still get do some coding on my free time, and need the Dba help most of the time.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:34:04 +0000

Hey! I stopped hosting from my living room last year!

By: Derek K. Miller

Derek K. Miller — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:24:25 +0000

I agree with the other folks here. Publish it yourself on whatever system and domain you prefer, and syndicate it if you want. If it’s good stuff, people will find it. For example, if it had been one of the URLs at the end of the talk you posted last week, people seeing that would have come to check it out, and maybe the ball would get rolling from there.

Maybe don’t host it on a server in your apartment, though.

By: robbat2

robbat2 — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:55:48 +0000

My blog (at LJ), is mostly technical material, with most non-technical content friends locked.

Any posts tagged with ‘gentoo’ are aggregated up onto the Gentoo Planet, which is most of them these days.

I don’t see much point in having them separate blogs, since the private content is blocked from the average viewer anyway.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:01:09 +0000

+1 tech blog. I’ve considered doing one myself, but never got around to it…

By: bryanf

bryanf — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:21:45 +0000

I would say write a tech blog, and tell people about it, but don’t intentionally syndicate it on a portal. People who are interested will find it, by word of mouth or Google, and will post links and excerpts on the portals if they want. That way you can moderate comments on your posts as you wish, and blog about whatever you want instead of what ‘s appropriate for the portal.

By: Mark Atwood

Mark Atwood — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:10:54 +0000

You should tech blog, and you should syndicate it into Planet MySQL, and you should just ignore the voting. The voting was put into place when a bunch of Sun salesmen thought that polluting Planet MySQL with marketing drivel was a smart idea, so the voting system was put into place to get rid of it.