Technology

How Blogging Helps Your Career #8 – The Soap Box

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(The roundup for the “How Blogging Helps Your Career Series” is here)

You have things to say.  You have ideas.  You have statements.

You want to get them out.  To broadcast them.

You want to know how to reach people and connect with them.

You want to get over your fear of doing it in the first place.

Come to think of it, on your job, chances are you wish you were better at shooting your mouth off effectively.

A blog is a great way to get better at this.

Blogging is a soap box you can stand on and shout from.

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Adeptus Mechanicus Panicus Returnicus

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Awhile ago I made a semi-humorous point that I was worried that people in technical fields (well, us) would end up a bit like the Adeptus Mechanicus in the Warhammer 40K universe.  The Adeptus of this somewhat-over-the-top dark future story are both technicians and a religious order, secretive, at times dogmatic, and culturally stagnant.  I think you can see the comparison and the concern.

It is some time later, and I wanted to repeat my observation and note . . . I think we’re closer than I thought.

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Dead Blogs, Sadness, and Concepts

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So I’ve been looking for information on estimating methods for SCRUM.  Yes, I’m sure that sounds unexciting to most people, but really this is something PM’s and SCRUM masters nearly get into fisticuff’s over.  Oh, you think hours are going to work, don’t bet on it . . .

So anyway, I dug up a blog that shall remain nameless, and it was filled with great stuff – and hadn’t been updated in 2 years, it’s creator’s twitter feed had posts every few months.  Yet it was filled with wisdom.

I guess I can consider it dead, but doesn’t that seem wrong?  I mean it has active, vital, useful information in it?

Somehow I think we need to rethink blogs.  Maybe they have to stop, and so be it, but is it really dead?  Is it dead if the information is good?  Is it dead if it has meaning?

Maybe we need to rethink blogs as part of something larger, of archiving, curating, creation.

Maybe we need to create metasites that archive old blog information for people.

Maybe we should “reincarnate content” as I mentioned earlier.

Blogs may be dead, but the information is alive.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.