Having five minutes to rub against each other is a luxury this week, but I figured that as I put in an 18 hour day yesterday, I’d best catch up with things here. Now that I’ve settled into the way tumblr behaves and find that I’m liking it very much as a platform, it’s probably time I started using/abusing the system sensibly. I looked long and hard at it and find that tumblr is prime for treating blogging activity like building a weekly magazine. Which is good news for me being a mag editor.

Somewhere in secret, I’ve started a list of tags to repeatedly use - I guess they’ll eventually become the ‘magazine sections’ but aside from that, I’m going to look closely at exactly what this ‘me’ magazine will be about. I am also very tempted to commit to posting everyday. I did this once before a couple of years ago and kept it up for a good couple of months quite successfully. That was also before I had decent technology that now enables me to post everyday if I want to.

Anyway, what might those sections of the magazine be? I read today at thebubblecow blog that you shouldn’t blog about yourself, but to a point, I’m going to have to disagree with this. There are some blogs I follow where blogging about self really doesn’t work - rather a lot of them now I come to look - but it rather depends on your writing style. I’ve been doing this long enough now to know that my style allows me to randomly post about my kids, a bird coming down the chimney… but it doesn’t work for everybody - I’m probably helped in this my having a ‘magazine head’.

Followers of the Neil Gaiman blog will know that he posts rather a lot about himself as well as his work. It should be boring, but it’s not. I think the key to success either way with this is to fully understand what you’re trying to achieve with your blog, rather than having a blog for its own sake…