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Of QR Codes, Foursquare and Ning « 32 Flavors and Then Some — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:56:55 +0000

[...] State native) Ed Corrado touches on a problem many bloggers (including this one) have – finding direction in a blog that covers multiple interests. The Ning model offers selective publishing. If want to talk LIS, I can blog about it in my [...]

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:56:35 +0000

My (woefully neglected) blog is the hybrid model you presently have – a little bit of the professional (lib sci stuff) and a little bit of the personal (knitting, what’s going on in my life). I categorize stuff so that my knitting friends can gloss over the lib and info sci and vice versa – and so my mom can gloss over everything (I don’t even think she KNOWS i blog) until I misquote one of their malapropisms and I get an earful.

That being said, since you and I share some of the same interests, I pretty much read everything. But if you think separate feeds/blogs/whatever works for you, go for it.

By: ecorrado

ecorrado — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:26:25 +0000

@Dominique: The separation of the personal from professional blogs is one of my concerns about a joint blog. Yes, professional and personal often overlap [1] , but I assume some of the people who read my blog for the library and/or technology related posts wouldn’t know me from a hole in the wall if I were next to them on an airplane. I doubt these people really care about the non-professional aspects of my life unless they have the same quirky interests – which is highly doubtful.

I think I may have to look at how I can have the 3 blogs be one or three, depending on what people want to look at. I probably can do that with WordPress without too much trouble if I do a bit of research.

[1] At least they seem to in the USA – I’m not sure how universal this is – some of my research on Francophone vs. Anglophone blogs makes me think that this may be different in other cultures.

By: ecorrado

ecorrado — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:56:14 +0000

@Andy: Good point about the aggregators. If I do decide to go with categories, I will let the people who run Planet Code4Lib know what the appropriate feed should be.

By: David A. Harding

David A. Harding — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:19:55 +0000

I vote for categories and descriptive headlines. Currently I subscribe to your main feed but skip auto racing posts and nitty-gritty library posts. As long as you continue writing clear headlines, it’s no work for me to click “Next Item” in my feed reader when I see posts that don’t interest me.

Also, I love chili, so bring on the receipes!

By: Dominique Papin

Dominique Papin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:56:44 +0000

I personally prefer seperate blogs. I don’t mind a personnal post every now and then in a professionnal blog, but I think a blog should have one main focus.
Just my 2 cents

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:32:06 +0000

I read your blog via Planet Code4Lib, and I’m only interested in your code/lib postings. Whichever approach you take, please make sure aggregators only pick up the relevant posts.

By: Jodi Schneider

Jodi Schneider — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:35:48 +0000

Use categories. We’ll either read it all or subscribe to separate feeds.