Trying something different.

I've decided that for the next 30 days I'm going to post something on here. I've also decided that I'm not going to start with an "anchor" as is traditional of many blog posts.

The classic formula for a blog post is to start with a news article, another blog post, or something else that you've ran across on the web and to respond to that thing in some way. For example many blog posts follow this format:

Blogger X has a really interesting post up this morning on Subject Y. I have to agree/disagree with him/her strongly. Let me tell you why: ...

While this format has the advantage of "injecting" you into an existing debate and possibly driving traffic to your site through the linkbacks. It doesn't really give you freedom to explore topics that interest you.

It also reduces the amount of thought an creativity you have to invest into a blog post. In many cases this is not a bad thing: I'm less likely to write something if I have to start from scratch.

However, I've come to realize that one of the reasons I want to have a blog is to give myself a space to "think out loud." So I'm going to force myself to do that by putting up at least one post a day that's completely free form.

Let's see how it goes.