I ran almost popular blogs at times (on now defunct platforms) The pursuit of popularity requires putting a good amount of effort into looking at things from your current and target audience perspective. (It makes a good face palm when the 2 float apart) Non of the effort ever produced the real popularity I was looking for, just a few million page views over their existence. But I kept working at it for some reason...
Today I have a blog with thousands of postings that enjoys 1 to 10 visitors every day. 5000 views is a good year. I post videos, gather links and make citations, write my thoughts along with them [at times] and put some effort into organizing a large number of tags into sub tags and sub sub tags (at least that is how the menu unfolds them)
The entire philosophy is to make a blog for the audience that is me. It is wonderful to structure my thoughts like this. I'm tempted to call it a journal but really it isn't. If I did a journal I would feel obligated to post on it.
The blog is really nothing more than an advanced version of your bookmarks menu but in a highly biased way I'm highly amused by the level of technical sophistication. The entire thing is made of static html. The software parts only know how to create static html and a static backup is made of pages before they are replaced with a new version. Non of the upgrades or security hazards ever had any influence on its existence. Its so rigid there is no technology to write about on the blog.
Or a long story short:
I think you have exactly the right idea. If you write it just for yourself you will enjoy every moment of it.
Depending on who you are and what interests you some of your articles might become popular. Completely ignore it when it happens. Just keep it real. The only things of value coming from the outside world should be 1) a sense of responsibility not to post complete trash (for example a chunk of code without explaining why or what) and 2) interesting comments people leave on your stuff.
Just focus on the area where no one can match your expertise.
I suppose a link is required. Ill add what I jokingly refer to as my greatest work: http://blog.go-here.nl/8616
Today I have a blog with thousands of postings that enjoys 1 to 10 visitors every day. 5000 views is a good year. I post videos, gather links and make citations, write my thoughts along with them [at times] and put some effort into organizing a large number of tags into sub tags and sub sub tags (at least that is how the menu unfolds them)
The entire philosophy is to make a blog for the audience that is me. It is wonderful to structure my thoughts like this. I'm tempted to call it a journal but really it isn't. If I did a journal I would feel obligated to post on it.
The blog is really nothing more than an advanced version of your bookmarks menu but in a highly biased way I'm highly amused by the level of technical sophistication. The entire thing is made of static html. The software parts only know how to create static html and a static backup is made of pages before they are replaced with a new version. Non of the upgrades or security hazards ever had any influence on its existence. Its so rigid there is no technology to write about on the blog.
Or a long story short:
I think you have exactly the right idea. If you write it just for yourself you will enjoy every moment of it.
Depending on who you are and what interests you some of your articles might become popular. Completely ignore it when it happens. Just keep it real. The only things of value coming from the outside world should be 1) a sense of responsibility not to post complete trash (for example a chunk of code without explaining why or what) and 2) interesting comments people leave on your stuff.
Just focus on the area where no one can match your expertise.
I suppose a link is required. Ill add what I jokingly refer to as my greatest work: http://blog.go-here.nl/8616