Why is that? My Database Daily editorial for this week focuses on that and I thought it would be interesting to save it here:

Not that it's hard to do, I mean, run a browser, connect to your blog,

click a button or two to bring up a form, type something, then click

another button and Whala! A blog entry.

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Blogs are supposed to be to writing articles what Instant Messaging is

to email. A quick and dirty way to get some things, thoughts, ideas,

etc., out there. So why is it so hard?

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When I first added blogs to Database Daily, it was exciting to see so

much information out there being written about SQL Server 2005. And it

was cool to stumble on an ever growing list of blogs to include, mainly

from folks at Microsoft. But that excitement has cooled as I've grown

my list to 50 or so blogs, most of which are not updated each week. In

fact, it seems that I've got a few, from some fairly prominent people

on the development team, that haven't been updated in months.

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Now I personally have 2 blogs, one personal and one on the

SQLServerCentral.com site. I know how hard it is to keep up with them

and honestly the SSC one suffers with only a post a week to it. But I

also know that it's somewhat of a responsibility and worth taking a few

minutes to throw something out there, especially something related to

the site or SQL Server.

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It seems like most things, people got excited, jumped in to setup their

blog and then the enthusiasm waned and they were done. I get that, it's

a human response to lots of things. But for most of these technical

guys, that blog should be something they jot notes or ideas in more

often. I know when I was developing software I often had "aha" moments

on little things. And those should be blogged about. I had lots of them

in my personal blog, short things that sometimes turned into longer

articles.

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I think many people see the blog the same as a written article and only

well though out and written things should go there. I disagree. I think

small, short, off the cuff remarks are perfect for the blog with the

longer things for published articles. So bug the Microsoft guys and ask

for more, not necessarily longer, postings.

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And make my Database Daily job easier 🙂

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Steve Jones