!=Kevin Costner

This, admittedly, is an experimental blog.

No, I’m not doing anything experimental with blogging per se—I mean blogging is an experiment for me personally. I’m dipping my toe in, checking things out, seeing how it works for me and how to do it.

So far, let me just tell you a couple things I’ve figured out:

1. Writing well is not hard, but having a cohesive thought that you need to explain is challenging. In other words: it’s sorta tough to come up with topics worthy of blogging. Why? Honestly, there’s SO MANY amazing blogs out there. Well-written, researched, thought out, planned, well-executed. Slapping some crap together just doesn’t work anymore.
2. Traffic does not come just because you slap some crap together. It’s funny looking at my stats and seeing how many people (none) have stumbled upon my door. I know through work experience that people expect instant traffic when you put something online. I’ve done plenty of work projects where people on the business side anticipate a fire hose, and you have to temper their expectations. Nobody’ll show up without some form of marketing. That’s just how it is.

So, again, nothing monumental here. Did I think this out beforehand? No. Will I get traffic for this post? Nope. Just burping thoughts out there. Interesting to me tho.

Yeah

OK, that last post was stupid. I wasn’t awake yet and was just stream-of-conscious tapping at keys.

Dumb.

Blogroll

So I just dumped a bunch of the feeds I read into WordPress with OPML import.

I look at a lot of different things, so it’s a bit of a mishmash. God help me, I love the UFC. Where that fits in with typography, programming or graphic design, I’m not sure. But there they are.

A couple things about the feeds I regularly read:

• You gotta respect the earnestness of folks like the guy that writes AjaxNinja or David Seah. Very different blogs, but interesting for their underlying sincerity and knowledge.
• John Hicks doesn’t write all that much, but his site is great to visit and his portfolio is pretty fantastic.
• Seth Fricken Godin. Enough said.

Yes, there is so much information available now that we are essentially drowning in choice. And, to completely mix metaphors here, Google is our little sherpa buddy guiding us up to the peak of the mountain for everything we seek.

Fricken brilliant times we live in. Brilliant.

Unfashionably Late

Starting this blog now is the equivalent to showing up to a party when everyone has left and the hosts are going to bed. But hey, you’re still ready to go, so you’re knocking on the door with a sixer in hand.

It’s like that.

Oh well. Of the gajillion blogs out there, the most I can say for this one is that it’s my own. To paraphrase Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: This is my blog. There are many like it but this one is mine.