A Dead Blog Isn’t a Blog At All… – Blogging For The Sake of Blogging?

March 15, 2010

in Journal

This blog is slowly drying up and I’m almost wondering if should even keep this live because I really don’t think I have the time (or motivation) to blog right now; at least for the concept of why I launched this blog in the first place.

I wanted to have a career-focused blog as a place for me to jot down my thoughts and experiences as I explored and grew in this  industry of Online/Digital/Search (call it what you may) Marketing, but as it turns out, by the time that I’m back home at the end of my day (or week), I don’t really want to spend another hour or so sifting through the muddle that’s in my mind – because honestly, I spend my whole day looking at RSS feeds, blogs, analytics, spreadsheets, and I just want some time to veg and watch some videos of the new StarCraft II beta (yeah; I’m lame); or at least engage in some of the other passions in my life. And I say passion, because I really do enjoy this industry- somehow it just appeals to that nerdy/geeky part of me and I’ll be able to learn and engage in some new link-building campaign, while still thinking that it’s something ‘cool’, and not just utter grunt work.

There are so many other things that I enjoy am, but many of which I feel don’t ‘fit’ into this mold of a career blog- and so I don’t write about them. So, I’m going to dilute the water even more (does that make sense? I’m losing touch with my American colloquialisms here in China) and I decided to re-categorize my ‘Short Updates’ to ‘Journal’ posts, to allow me to run with whatever I feel like I want to write about. The pros of this? I’ll actually (hopefully) write more. The cons… well, this blog is slowly becoming just a blog about ‘me’, and not really anything specific to Online and Digital Marketing.

So what have I been wanting to share apart from digital marketing and photography? Well, besides the fact that I’ve been wanting to keep the blog professional and career focused, I’ve also been very wary about speaking of the leading that the Lord has had in my arrival to China; I don’t think further explanation is needed on that issue. But whether it be marketing or photography, the one vision that is close to me since that OIL conference that led me to consider China is that I am in the harvest field.

“The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask earnestly of the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

Everything about the purpose behind work, and life here in Beijing revolves around that purpose- and hopefully I’ll be able to express more of who this blog is portraying.

-Duncan

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  • Hi Duncan! If there was a like-function, I'd like this post. :) Yeah I wanted to have an online blog to document all areas of my "passions" (as you call it) too! I still haven't figured out exactly how to make the different categories yet, or how much to share. There are a bunch of Y-gen bloggers who seem to have been able to achieve this balance (sort of).. they were the ones that inspired me to do the same actually - some of them in the marketing field. :) Maybe you've already seen them, but some of the ones I follow..
    http://politicoholic.com/
    http://www.lifeschocolates.com/
    http://www.lifeaftercollege.org/

    What I really like about their online blogging community is being able to follow as they explore their interests and share their findings. It's not always the most profound ideas, but it's still nice to be able to relate I guess.

    ps. The last part of the entry sounds awesome, but you're right that it's not America.. be careful! :)
  • Haha; Hi Fei!

    Thanks for sharing those links; I'll def check them out. And be sure to send me your blog address if/when you get it up!
  • kelley
    marco! :)
  • Polo! =p Haha, hi Kelley, thanks for dropping by!
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