For my first blog prompt I chose to read an interview with Bruce Schneier, the man behind the blog Schneier on Security. While Bruce had much to say on the topic of blogging, I want to share the big takeaways that I personally found tucked within Schneier’s thoughts on blogging.
The first thing I found surprising in Schneier’s interview is that he posts two to three times per day. While I’m sure many blogs do something similar, and possibly even more, I’m surprised that he manages to produce all of this material on his own. To be completely honest I’m finding it hard to even write my first post, let alone whipping up two to three each day. Along the same lines, I was also impressed by the amount of traffic that his blog gets. 220,000 views per day sounds like a significant number for such a niche blog.
A side-note, but I also found his comment on “surfing secrets” to be quite humorous. “Tabbed browsing. Civilization would collapse without it.” I think I found this particularly funny because the interview was fairly formal up to the point and it was nice to see some of Bruce’s personality come through to the reader. Also, I agree, tabbed browsing is da bomb.
Lastly, toward the end of the interview Bruce gave some solid advice to someone just like me, the newbie blogger. “Just do it. Don’t worry about being boring. Don’t worry about being interesting. Just do it.” And while that’s easier said than done, I hope I can use that advice to put together some solid posts in the future. So there you have it, a newbie’s first blog post about an interview with a blogger on the subject matter of blogging. I think I just went into blogging overload…
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