Categories: bryght | drupal | geekspeak | technology
An old friend emailed me today to tell me that she enjoys reading my blog, but doesn't understand most of it. It made me smile, and got me thinking a bit. Thanks for the feedback, Deb. :)
It's true that a lot of my recent posts have been fairly geekery-focused. I don't want to discourage non-geek readers, but I guess the truth of the matter is that I spend a lot of time working with and thinking about web-related stuff lately, and that's what I'm inclined to post about. It probably also means that my parents aren't reading this regularly. (Though if I'm wrong, leave a comment, eh Mum/Dad?)
I'm soaking up a lot of new information rather quickly these days. Richard just said to me, in response to my comment that I feel like my on-ramp into geekdom has been fast and steep, that "hanging out at the Bryght office is like drinking from the firehose." True. It also leads to writing posts that normal people can't make any sense of. But I have to say that I've been enjoying learning to speak geek... I just need to remember to bring it on back to the real world!
Know what you mean...
Thu, 2006-03-09 00:01 — BryanSD (not verified)Yea, a lot of us "geeks" are in the same boat. My wife has had fits that on a niche blog of ours where she talks about baby products and fictional books while I continue to focus on computers and tech. I have a family site on Drupal that I don't talk too much technical babble on, but it's a site that I've wanted to keep out of the spotlight, so where else do I have to post my tech rants? Eventually I'll put up my own "only talk geek here" site and the family can finally be at ease...
In the same boat
Thu, 2006-03-09 10:32 — michael (not verified)Many family and friends read my personal blog (that I also want out of the spotlight), which has many thousands of pictures of the family and our daughter. I recently split out my tech content from my personal blog (tech.*.net), but I am not completely sure I want to keep it. Managing two blogs sometimes feels like too much, especially when working in the tech world.
Many of my tech friends just toss all their content on the main page of their blog, and let their non-geek friends/family sort it all out. I go back and forth between wanting a single place for friends to find out about me (because after all, part of me is all geek!), and at the same time not wanting to alienate my non-geeky friends.
At this point I am just undecided on what to do, I may just purchase a new domain name and use that as my Personal but Professional place to do stuff (including tech rants), and leave the current blog (and domain name) as a "family" place.
//michael
me too
Thu, 2006-03-09 12:19 — sarahfelicityMichael,
That's kinda what I decided to do - maintain a blog that was more or less professional but not totally impersonal (that's this one). I used to have a more personal blog, but decided it wasn't at all what I wanted to be my first hit on Google, so I kind of abandoned it.
My challenge now is that I actually find myself wanting to write more personal content, but I don't necessarily want to direct potential employers to the site where I bare my soul. So it's always a balancing act...