Audience
If there’s one thing that has been hammered into my head throughout my graduate program, it’s Audience Audience Audience. Always target your work for an appropriate audience. And “everybody” just doesn’t cut it.
Hence, I’ve found myself splitting my time between different services lately, and writing different things for each. Namely, there’s Twitter (largely filled with people I don’t know personally) and Facebook (largely people I do know personally). Sometimes I post updates to one and not the other, and sometimes I use a tool to do both. But I always think about it.
I’ve also found that as a result, I’m using this blog less (audience largely unknown, except for Danny), and del.icio.us (no audience except myself, but Facebook’s link posting has added another outlet).
No, this isn’t a “please excuse me for not posting” post (I try not to do those anymore), just an observation about web technology, which I’m always interested in.
And speaking of all this, I’m launching a new website/blog for a class project soon. I’m not anticipating ever launching it for real beyond the confines of what’s needed for class, but I think it’ll be cool.
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yeah there are other lurker motherf*ers up in this B, too.
Whats the site yer thinking of?
I guess this is a good time to speak up. I’ve been following your blog here for a while, before following Critical Hits.
By the way, something recently prompted me to re-read your father’s “The River of Dancing Gods,” where I found this nice dedication:
“For David Whitley Chalker, who, being born 12/19/81, did his crying best to prevent the completion of this novel.”
An interesting connection, I think, to your interest in D&D.
Ryon: Ah yes, I forgot about my legion of stalkers…
New site is a class project, but a pretty cool idea. When I get more details hammered out I’ll post about it.
David: That’s one of my favorite books too! That’s only one of the many reasons
Dear David’
I love that you are carrying on your dads battles. Thanks!
Let’s look at Dance Band.
David A.
Crap, Dave got some Davids in his Dave Blog!
I’m actually happy, because if you were really writing and considering me the sole audience, I assume there’d be a lot more ‘your mom’ jokes and generally rampant idiocy.