Blogs are generally single author affairs, where the webmaster, marketer, writer and editor are one and the same. Perhaps this is something most associated with blogging, but I’m beginning to question whether it’s a good thing.
Maintaining a blog is a lot of work; you have not only to write but design, market, upgrade software, deal with email and moderate comments. A lot of work, is it not?
Blogging should be about posting; not designing and tiresome maintenance. So I’m finding my spell at gHacks pretty enjoyable; my posts may not be very frequent, but it feels like much less of a chore to write them as I know I don’t have to trawl through pages of maintenance when I open WordPress. I can post without worrying. That’s what blogging’s about.
Whilst creativity may feel somewhat lower, as one is concerned about editorial control, it (in a way) requires much less effort to write on someone else’s blog than your own.
Perhaps some hosted blogging solutions take the hassle out of maintenance, but marketing and negotiating advertising is still up to the blogger. That is not a stressless process, rest assured!
The question is, is it better to have a lesser workload or more control over content?
It depends from person to person. This post illustrates my love for posterous thus far.
I find it’s much easier to just comment on something that’s already been researched rather than creating something insightful from scratch
I find, (and I’m sure I’m not alone), that the management of the blog is enjoyable in it’s own small way also. I guess it depends on how much of a congenital ‘fiddler’ you are
I am more of a tinkerer so I like being in the admin chair, but I have written on other websites and I agree it’s nice sometimes to not have to worry about how something works, instead just use it.
I am however having trouble finding other writers who would like to trade postings… how did you hook up with ghacks?