I Couldn't Agree More

Here is what Bill Cammack (one of my good buds) had to say about my blog:

Off the bat, I already had this discussion with people about your blog after that Louis Grey situation. The blog is called ALANATAYLOR.com, so people that come here get what you give them. period. This is not ALANATALKSTECH.com or anything else with a format that you're deviating from, so if people want to tune in, they tune in. If they don't, they don't.

It would seem that this poster doesn't understand how it is to "live publicly (to a degree)". There's a difference between wanting to let people know what's going on with you and situations and things you find cool... and writing novels every single post. If you post a picture, it shows what you find interesting or what you did that day. It's also better than posting NOTHING until you have something epic to write about.

Depending on when someone visits my site, they could easily get the impression that all I do is post pictures of myself with chicks. :) That's because I have so many of them that I have to post them in sequence. However, they MIGHT just show up when I spent two hours writing a DG post, or when I've written something about Social Media or Post Production and have a totally different opinion on what I have to offer as far as blogging.

The benefit of having a blog is that you can post WHAT you want, WHEN you want, and you don't have to come with the same quality every time, the same depth every time or the same topic every time.

As far as bringing up that you didn't remember writing one of your entries, that's another disconnect. The point isn't that you forgot... it's that you SHARED that you forgot. It's something that happens to lots of people, such as the famous term "Drunk Dialing". Blogging about it AND not removing the post is part of your blog's "character development". Unfortunately, this is only going to be obvious to those of us that live this life and not those who look at blogging and want it to be "serious journalism" all the time.

Also, the wrong terminology is used. In one sentence, the commenter says "Many of them included a photo", which I happen to know you post a lot of photos from your iPhone. In another sentence, "you don't seem to be generating much original content". Sorry. Content isn't only text. Photos that YOU took from YOUR iPhone are a) Content and b) Original.

Also, this is what categories are for. People that don't want to view my flood of pics subscribe directly to DG or my Post Production category or whatever. The net allows us to pick and choose what sections of people's blogs we pay attention to or filter out.

So, ultimately, your blog is something that you're going to look back on in a month or a year and say "Does that actually represent ME? Did I say what I wanted to say? Did I bring people along for the ride that's my current life?". If you feel like "high journalism" is what you're striving to achieve, do that. If you feel like letting people in on what you're thinking, doing and experiencing is your goal, then do that.

I see why the poster complained, but I also understand why he doesn't understand what you're doing and what you're expressing to those of us who "get it".