In fact, comments that we received from readers, is that they like the mix. Our work among others put the reader in a larger context and community and it help to sensitize to photojournalism and documentary photography.

(Purely anecdotal, but a lot of bloggers don’t make it past 3 months.)

As to the reasons “why”, I think it comes down to poorly-defined goals (“why am I blogging”), lack of feedback, lack of integration with pre-existing work and business / life objectives, and a lack of dedication. Creating is hard work.

Great post at a great time. On Sunday night I took my blog live over the internets. I am using many of the ideas I have learned from this and previous posts you have made about blogging.

My big question is I don’t know when to let people know that the blog is live. Do I just let the word out and continue to refine the look and feel of it as I go, or do I wait.

Thanks for all the information.

M.D. Welch

But we have to have our goals framed right; blogging is one form of creating, and creating should come from our passions. As odd as it sounds, our goal can’t be to find a larger audience: we have to write for ourselves and the 3 people that will actually care. Writing for “others” or “our audience” is the easiest way to lose “our audience”… fairly similar to photography, in fact.

A related post about 50 content ideas for blogging: http://www.conversationagent.com/2009/04/50-content-ideas-the-create-buzz.html