To blog or not to blog.

Once or twice a year, I take a look at this blog and realize it's as neglected as a Green Party voter during election time. (I know this from personal experience.) That's when I tell myself I will resume my efforts at keeping it alive, kicking and presumably relevant and interesting. The result is a week or two of regular posts, then I get distracted once again.

What is the distraction, since I do a lot of writing that ends up on Facebook? Well...it's Facebook.

Social media wisdom holds that I should post appropriate content on this blog, then share the blog on Facebook, tracking shares, likes and comments. What happened though, was I found shares of blog entries got much less attention than my direct posts on Facebook. My theory on that is it was due to people not being sure that the blog was actually mine. My FB friends and followers have come to expect certain things from me directly on FB, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them looked at my blog shares and thought it was not my original writings.

The thing is, this blog is supposed to help my photography and writing progress into my primary sources of income. To do that means a quantum leap in hits (or at least a solid progression. Quantum leaps take Search Engine Marketing dollars I don't have.)

I'll admit my creative energies with photography, writing and music don't seem to extend into enough discipline to manage promotional aspects very well.

So here I am again, trying to motivate myself to update this blog on a regular basis, such as at least twice a week. My methodology is going to be to post any essay length ruminations here (essay length being more than 2 or 3 paragraphs) and save Facebook for short, scathingly clever and effusively witty remarks.

What this also means is that the nature of my blog posts is going to change a bit. With "Eye Guess" I'm going to concentrate mainly on how I view things as a photographer and story teller. I'll do a lot of sharing about my photography and how I make photos, as well as share things about story telling and music, with a video thrown in now and then.

My other blog, "The Mad Mohawk", which has been sitting idle for a couple of years, is where I will post my social and political commentaries and some of the crazy ideas I have for improving things.