What I’m Trying to Do Here
View from a Farley originally launched in 2008. At that time, it was a blog and podcast. A few months later, I canned the podcast. Since then, View from a Farley has been a blog, but I’ve had trouble updating it. Someone once told me that blogs that don’t have fresh content every single day have a lot of trouble attracting an audience. I not only want an audience, but I want to engage my audience in meaningful discussion.
I realized that something needed to change. The View from a Farley of old specialized in long posts. A lot of time, effort, and research went into many of those posts, but they were just too time-conusming to put out on a regular basis.
I decided to move to what I call the Daring Fireball model. Daring Fireball is John Gruber’s collection of links, quotes, and snippets of what he’s reading along with his comments. On occasion, he writes a long, thoroughly researched post.
From this new model, I get flexibility. I can share the most interesting articles I read on a particular day complete with my comments. When I want to, I can write a longer post. I hope you all find my posts, both short and long, engaging and amusing. I invite you to add to the discussion in the comments for each post.
- Chris
