{"id":387,"date":"2013-05-21T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2013\/05\/21\/some-thoughts-on-blogging\/"},"modified":"2013-05-21T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T16:50:10","slug":"some-thoughts-on-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2013\/05\/21\/some-thoughts-on-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts On Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a bit over eight months since I left Microsoft and moved my Computer Science Education<\/a> blog to a new location. The move went surprisingly well all told. I didn\u2019t migrate my old posts from the old location but didn\u2019t start completely from scratch. The blog had been around for a while and I had occasionally cross posted so there were some posts there. Also I used Feedburner so by changing that link I kept most of my RSS subscribers.  Other traffic tool longer to build up. But Blogger claims I\u2019ve had a bit over 130,000 page views since then. That\u2019s not bad.  Recent page view counts have been similar to what I was seeing at the old location.<\/p>\n

Otherwise I have noticed some changes. Especially lately I am blogging a bit less frequently. Sometimes only twice a week. Other times three times. I used to always post at least five times a week. A couple of reasons for this. <\/p>\n

One is time. Or rather how I prioritize my time. At Microsoft part of how I was measured at salary review time was on traffic to my blog. That was a serious incentive to work on quantity as much if not more than quality. These days I don\u2019t have that incentive. In the long run that is good I think. <\/p>\n

I also used to have an email inbox that regularly filled with requests from others at Microsoft to promote their products or events. Occasionally driving action to those events or products was also rewarded. These days I don\u2019t have many Microsoft people asking me to promote their stuff. I still do promote some things for friends especially when I think it has real value to my audience. Mostly I do it on my own though. I do miss getting some updates on products directly though. I\u2019ve hardly heard about the Imagine Cup for example. I used to blog about that a lot. I still think it is a great event but my time priority is not to track down the news on it. <\/p>\n

Thirdly I am not going to cool events like I used to. I\u2019m not complaining as I am really enjoying being back in the classroom but those events were both a nice change of pace and something good to write about.<\/p>\n

On the other hand I am writing about more non-Microsoft things. Not that I didn\u2019t do so before as I often wrote about things like Alice and Scratch. I don\u2019t hesitate to write about Google or Apple these days. I used to occasionally write about them before but always very carefully. A Microsoft employee could get into real trouble commenting too much on competitive products. Not as much from inside the company as outside though. Being publically critical of the competition was not encouraged at Microsoft. In fact they\u2019d rather people said nothing at all than be hyper critical. Promoting competition was also not going to win you any friends but was actually easier for me than being critical. It\u2019s all easier now though. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure what the blogging is going to look like over the summer. My blog is evolving and I\u2019m not sure in what directions it will really go. All I know is that I still have a need to share ideas, tools, events and other information. So the blog continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a bit over eight months since I left Microsoft and moved my Computer Science Education blog to a new location. The move went surprisingly well all told. I didn\u2019t migrate my old posts from the old location but didn\u2019t start completely from scratch. The blog had been around for a while and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}